Malicroix
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Fans of the style of William Faulkner will want to read Henri Bosco, four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Available in English for the first time, Malicroix tells the story of a recluse living in the French countryside, unraveling how he came to a life of solitude.
Henri Bosco, like his contemporary Jean Giono, is one of the regional masters of modern French literature, a writer who dwells above all on the grandeur, beauty, and ferocious unpredictability of the natural world. Malicroix, set in the early nineteenth century, is widely considered to be Boscos greatest book. Here he invests a classic coming-of-age story with a wild, mythic glamour.
A nice young man, of stolidly unimaginative, good bourgeois stock, is surprised to inherit a house on an island in the Rhône, in the famously desolate and untamed region of the Camargue. The terms of his great-uncles will are even more surprising: the young man must take up solitary residence in the house for a full three months before he will be permitted to take possession of it. With only a taciturn shepherd and his dog for occasional company, he finds himself surrounded by the huge and turbulent river (always threatening to flood the island and surrounding countryside) and the wind, battering at his all-too-fragile house, shrieking from on high. And there is another condition of the will, a challenging task he must perform, even as others scheme to make his house their own. Only under threat can the young man come to terms with both his strange inheritance and himself.
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Product specificaties:
Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 april 2020
Aantal pagina's: 286
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Henri Bosco
Hoofduitgeverij: The New York Review Of Books, Inc
Eerste Vertaler: Joyce Zonana
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 127 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 203 mm
Verpakking lengte: 203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 294 g
EAN: 9781681374109