Kalimantaan - Brossura

Godshalk, C. S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0805055347 ISBN 13: 9780805055344

Casa editrice: Owl Books, 1999

Riassunto

One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where least expected.

Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, and saints-- the madly talented and simply mad. And the women followed: wives and would-be wives, spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly.

Kalimantaan is the story of this world, these people. But 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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Informazioni sull'autore

C.S. Godshalk, who now 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 guest editors Mark Helprin (1988) and Richard Ford (1990). Joseph Coates, in the Chicago Tribune, hailed one story as a "small Flaubertian masterpiece." Ms. Godshalk is at work on her second novel, which is set in contemporary New England.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Owl Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0805055347
• ISBN 13: 9780805055344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 470
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile