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Southerly (Paperback)
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Southerly (Paperback)
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List price R293
Loot Price R242
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You Save R51 (17%)
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On the eve of an important battle, a colonel is visited in his tent
by an indigenous woman with a message to pass on. A man sets about
renovating the house of his childhood, and starts to feel that he
might be rebuilding his own life in the process. At a private
clinic to treat the morbidly obese, a caregiver has issues of her
own...Jorge Consiglio presents a universe of seemingly unrelated
tales, linked perhaps by a certain rhythm in the prose or the
subtle dimensions of violence and perversion. These are stories of
immigration, marginality, history, intimacy and obsession which are
masterful and deeply touching. They each present their own
distinctive view of the world through the lives of their respective
characters - who are as dissimilar as they are complex - and the
profound transformations they undergo. As reflections on the
uncontrollable nature of life, as depictions of how even the most
innocent detail can become a threat, these stories do not offer
neat endings but rather remain open to the reader's sense of
inquisitiveness.Southerly is a perfect introduction to what has
been called 'the Consiglian logic of story-telling' (Cabezon
Camara), in which events don't always occur sequentially, and where
the reader quickly learns to tiptoe between the tiniest of details,
as if walking through a minefield.
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