The River is The River

di Jonathan Buckley (Autore)

Sort of Books, 2015

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 Bernát, 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.

• Autore: Jonathan Buckley
• Editore: Sort of Books
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 214 x 134 mm
• Peso: 280 gr.
• EAN: 9781908745545

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