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In Another Country - Selected Stories (Paperback)
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In Another Country - Selected Stories (Paperback)
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List price R318
Loot Price R289
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The stories of David Constantine are unlike any others. His
characters possess you instantly, making you see the world as they
do - sometimes as exiles, driven into isolation by convictions that
even they don't fully understand; sometimes as carriers of an
unspoken but unbearable weight. The things they pursue, or evade,
are often unseen and at a distance - like the perfectly preserved
body of a woman in the title story, waiting to be discovered in the
receding ice of a Swiss glacier. These tokens of the past, or
future, haunt Constantine's characters, but the landscapes that
produce them also offer salvation, places of refuge or small
treasures to take solace in - like the piece of driftwood a
beachcomber chooses to carve into his idea of perfection. Gathering
together stories from over two decades of writing, this selection
demonstrates why Constantine has been hailed as 'perhaps the finest
of contemporary writers in this form'. Their bewitching and urgent
language is at one and the same time unsettling and 'strong enough
to help'. Featuring the story, 'In Another Country', that inspired
the motion picture, 45 Years.
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