Strangers at the Port: Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024
Autor Lauren Aimee Curtisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2024
'Enchanting and haunting'
RACHEL RODDY
'A fable for our times'
SPECTATOR
'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original'
LUCIE ELVEN
'A seaside Gothic tale teeming with superstition and mistrust'
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Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, apart from her older sister Giovanna, is a donkey. Giulia and Giovanna's days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.
Until the men arrive. And a foreign yacht anchors at the port. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes.
From the author of Dolores, Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399608183
ISBN-10: 1399608185
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399608185
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Curtis - who was included on Granta's recent Best of Young British Novelists list - writes dazzlingly confident prose, too rich to be called spare yet without any superfluous weight. She writes the island as if she were Celine Sciamma shooting Portrait of a Lady on Fire
An incredible novel about how the quiet, ritualistic lives of a pair sisters are shaken by the arrival of strangers on their island
Strangers at the Port is both a fascinating delve into the small, personal stories sacrificed to the grander sweep of history and a provocative creation of a fable for our times
Lushly poetic
Curtis's writing is beautiful
Reading this wonderfully oblique historical tale is a little like looking at the way light refracts through a prism: its meanings and impressions disperse along its journey to reveal what the author herself has termed 'the slippery overlap between history, fiction and memory' . . . Fascinating
Magnificent
Stubbornly enigmatic
A mesmeric and lyrical novel about a fictive island and its inhabitants, which eschews narrative convention in favour of something more elusive, fractured, and choral . . . truly original
An incredible novel about how the quiet, ritualistic lives of a pair sisters are shaken by the arrival of strangers on their island
Strangers at the Port is both a fascinating delve into the small, personal stories sacrificed to the grander sweep of history and a provocative creation of a fable for our times
Lushly poetic
Curtis's writing is beautiful
Reading this wonderfully oblique historical tale is a little like looking at the way light refracts through a prism: its meanings and impressions disperse along its journey to reveal what the author herself has termed 'the slippery overlap between history, fiction and memory' . . . Fascinating
Magnificent
Stubbornly enigmatic
A mesmeric and lyrical novel about a fictive island and its inhabitants, which eschews narrative convention in favour of something more elusive, fractured, and choral . . . truly original