The River is The River - Brossura

Buckley, Jonathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1908745541 ISBN 13: 9781908745545

Casa editrice: Sort of Books, 2015

Riassunto

A woman named Naomi arrives at her sister's house, intending, it seems, to say goodbye. She is abandoning her city life for a remote Scottish retreat, which she will share with a man called Bernat, whom she considers some kind of visionary. In a sequence of stories filtered through multiple re-tellings, she illuminates the character of this elusive individual. One story seems of special significance: about Afonso, an Amazon boatman, who could be the last speaker of his mother tongue, a language of apparently unique simplicity and precision. Bernat and Naomi are not, however, the only storytellers here. Naomi's sister, Kate, is herself working on a novel that begins as a ghost story, but ends up as something rather different: The river is the river.

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Recensione:

Praise for Jonathan Buckley's Nostalgia

'As good as anything by the dozen or so big brand names of contemporary Eng Lit.

(Ian Sansom Guardian)

Descrizione del libro:

A dazzlingly inventive novel that explores the whole nature of storytelling and writing.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sort of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1908745541
• ISBN 13: 9781908745545
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288