In The Shape Of A Boar - Rilegato

Norfolk, Lawrence

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ISBN 10: 0297646184 ISBN 13: 9780297646181

Casa editrice: W&N, 2000

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In the Shape of a Boar links pre-history with the darkest events of the twentieth century and the personal history of one man in an intricate, compulsively readable tale.

In pre-Homeric times, the Greek heroes � and one heroine � united one last time to hunt down the ferocious Boar of Kalydon, sent by Artemis to ravage the land. Within the ancient sources lies a darker tale � one of treachery among the hunters and a destructive love affair

Three and a half millennia later, the hunt for the Boar of Kalydon is re-enacted, and once again re-told. In the final months of the Second World War, Greek partisans pursue their quarry � an SS officer � in the same mountains the ancient Boar of Kalydon once roamed. Witness to the hunt is Sol Memel, a young Rumanian-Jewish poet fleeing for his life. Sol has lost his family and abandoned his lover, Ruth. Sol�s role in the SS officer�s eventual capture and killing inspires him to rewrite the ancient myth as a poem. Die Keilerjagd is acclaimed throughout post-war Europe and Sol is hailed as the voice of a generation. But Die Keilerjagd contains its own secret. When Ruth reappears twenty-five years later and proposes a film based on the writing of the poem, Sol finds himself cast as the quarry in this new telling of the tale. Under the camera�s unforgiving lens, the ghosts of Sol�s wartime past materialise � behind them stand the ghosts of ancient Greece, the long-dead heroes who hold the truth behind the story of the original hunt.

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Descrizione del libro:

Eagerly awaited third novel from author of the bestselling Lempri�re�s Dictionary and The Pope�s Rhinoceros

L'autore:

Lawrence Norfolk was born in 1963. He won the Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, Lempri�re�s Dictionary.

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