The Kalimantaan - Brossura

Godshalk, C. S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385257694 ISBN 13: 9780385257695

Casa editrice: Doubleday of Canada, 1999

Riassunto

One hundred and sixty years ago, a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world that resulted, boasting stone quays, elegant gardens, churches, and musical levees, eventually encompassed a territory the size of England, its expansion paid for in human heads. In this world, a version of Victorian colonial society collided with one of the most violent cultures on earth. The results were often startling--pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing in odd corners. A small tribe of fugitives, adventurers, criminals, and saints--the madly talented and the simply mad--peopled this world. This is their story.

The deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to miss it repeatedly and with perverse genius.

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Recensione:

"This book is a lovely surprise, I really never wanted it to end. It's like being taken to a magical unknown planet, yet suddenly realizing it all takes place on this globe in mysterious Borneo and Sarawak: a beautifully written, elegant and rich dream." --John Fowles

"Will be read and re-read ... a truly bewitching novel." --The Edmonton Journal

"A first novel of formidable imaginative power ... a brilliantly subtle panorama of life forces played out in the face of death. Kalimantaan is the work of a born storyteller."

--The New York Times Book Review

"A rich evocation of place and time ... a literary adventure story." --The Globe and Mail

"A tour de force ... one of the finest examples of literary historical fiction anywhere."

--Booklist (Starred Review)

"Kalimantaan may be the wisest book about love since Gabriel Garcia Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. Ambitious, beautifully written, with a richly woven tapestry of themes and ideas, it may also be the best historical novel of the past 10 years." --The Boston Phoenix

"Vividly robust and atmospheric ... A stunning novel, beautifully written in a lush abundance of images and insights, as damply sensual and surprising as its setting ... Readers will never think of Kipling or Conrad in quite the same way again." --The San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

C.S. Godshalk, who lives north of Boston, began Kalimantaan while working in southeast Asia. Her short fiction has been widely anthologized, her last two stories having been selected for Best American Short Stories by Mark Helprin and Richard Ford. C.S. Godshalk is at work on her second book, a contemporary novel set in New England.

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• Editore: Doubleday of Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385257694
• ISBN 13: 9780385257695
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480