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The River is The River

By (author) Jonathan Buckley
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Sort of Books, London, United Kingdom
Published: 7th Jul 2015
Dimensions: w 134mm h 214mm d 20mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN-10: 1908745541
ISBN-13: 9781908745545
Barcode No: 9781908745545
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Synopsis
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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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 *