Touch - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0307399443 ISBN 13 : 9780307399441

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Touch is one of those rare novels that simultaneously takes hold of both your imagination and your heart
and does not let go. In sharp, startling prose, Alexi Zentner seamlessly weaves the story of Sawgamet
and its inhabitants, creating a world of myth and magic, hard truths, aching loss, and spectacular triumphs.
It’s a gem of a book.”
–Aryn Kyle, author of The God of Animals

“In this accomplished debut, Alexi Zentner draws you in with a kind of magic. He paints a long-gone,
near-mythical world of northwestern loggers and miners with such skill that it comes roaring back to life.
And no wonder: this book is enchanted with fables, full of images so beautiful and strange that they
are haunting. Touch more than delivers on the promise of its title: long after the last page, you will still
be in its grip.”
–Josh Weil, author of The New Valley

“It’s hard to believe this is a first novel — Alexi Zentner is as confident and assured as the old sawyers
and prospectors who populate these pages. Touch brings to life a lost world, or maybe just a world we
wish was real, in prose as seductive as gold dust. It’s a sublime haunting, a ripping yarn, and a killer debut.”
–J. Robert Lennon, author of Castle, Pieces for the Left Hand, and Mailman

“Touch is a stunning and provocative debut. Zentner mines the human heart to blend humor with tragedy,
myth with reality, addicting his audience to a world as uplifting as it is brutal.”
–Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Beautifully written, hauntingly told, a New Face of Fiction novel that in its storytelling and recounting of a multi-generational family story brings to mind Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude - and in its evocation of the mythic wilderness, Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road.

My grandfather lifted the cup of tea and blew on it again. We were waiting for him to speak, and like any good storyteller he savored the anticipation, letting us dangle for just an extra moment. "I came back," he said, "to introduce Stephen to his grandmother."

"What?" My mother stared at him as if he had lost his mind.

"Why have I come back to Sawgamet? Why now?" He looked at me. "I've come for your grandmother," he said. "I've come to raise the dead."

This is Sawgamet, a mining boomtown gone bust, a logging village where the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, where the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the dark mysteries lurking in the woods. Thirty years after his grandfather's pronouncement, Stephen, now a pastor with a wife and family, returns home on the eve of his mother's funeral, to reconnect with the stories of his mythic grandfather and to confront the losses of childhood. Introducing a world of wonder and tenderness, a world where the monsters and witches of the woods are set against singing dogs and golden caribou, Touch is a haunting tale of three generations of love and loss in a town in Northern BC.

À propos de cette édition

• ISBN 10: 0307399443
• ISBN 13: 9780307399441
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304