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Tristan (Hardcover)
Clarence Boulay; Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
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R516
Discovery Miles 5 160
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Introducing a refreshing young French voice to English readers,
this slim novel is both a riveting love story and an examination of
humanity's assault on the natural world. After a seven-day journey
on the South Atlantic Ocean aboard a lobster boat servicing Cape
Town, Ida arrives on the island of Tristan. In the little island
community, a village nestled on the slopes of a volcano whose only
limits are the immense sky and the ocean, her bearings are
gradually shifted as time slowly begins to expand. When a cargo
ship runs aground near a neighboring island, spilling massive
amounts of oil, there is suddenly frantic activity in the town. Ida
eagerly joins a team of three men who go to the small island to
rescue oil-drenched penguins. One night, one of the men walks her
back to the cabin where she is staying. They experience a night of
love that continues to grow on the secluded island. For two weeks
away from the world-the sea is rough, no boat can come to pick them
up-the dance of their bodies and their all-consuming love is their
only horizon. Following the rhythm of the ocean and the untamed
wind, Clarence Boulay brilliantly gives flesh to a dizzying
sensation of sensual abandonment. Tristan raises emotional sails
and upends all certainty.
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