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The Grassling (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 3 750
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The Grassling (Hardcover)
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List price R457
Loot Price R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
You Save R82 (18%)
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'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . The
Grassling brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside
alive like few other books. Burnett stretches the limits of prose,
infusing it with poetic intensity to create a powerful, original
voice' PD Smith, Guardian What fills my lungs is wider than breath
could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded;
flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and
until I get there I will not really be breathing. Spurred on by her
father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote
of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through
layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful
story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. The Grassling is
a book about roots: what it means to belong when the soil beneath
our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that
nurtured us are slipping away.
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