Per me la vita non ha sogni, successi e tutte quelle maledette sciocchezze. La vita è piena di ombre: alcune sono morbide e altre nascondono un martello. Galton Flood è un uomo solo, irrequieto e a disagio con la sua famiglia. Lascia la sua casa nella capitale della Guyana, Georgetown, per una cittadina remota e il primo di una serie di lavori precari. L'incontro con Gemma, la figlia del suo padrone di casa, sembra offrire una prima possibilità di connessione significativa, forse persino felicità. Ma c'è un'oscurità dentro Galton e presto gelosia e paranoia lo portano a sgretolarsi fatalmente e violentemente. Con questo ritratto inquietante di una mente disfatta, il celebre scrittore guyanese Roy Heath ricrea in modo suggestivo il paese della sua giovinezza: i suoi fiumi, le sue cittadine e i cortili dei suoi caseggiati e le tensioni che luccicano sotto la superficie di una comunità.
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Roy Heath (1926-2008) grew up in Guyana, and moved to Britain in his twenties. He trained as a lawyer and was called to the bar in both Britain and Guyana, but worked instead as a writer and a secondary school teacher in London. The Murderer, his second novel, won the Guardian Fiction Prize when it was published in 1978. His subsequent works include the Armstrong trilogy - made up of From the Heat of the Day, One Generation and Genetha - and The Shadow Bride, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Though Heath spent most of his life in Britain, all of his fiction was set in Guyana.
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