Whale Caller - Couverture souple

Mda, Zakes

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312425872 ISBN 13 : 9780312425876

Editeur : Picador, 2006

Synopsis

As Zakes Mda's fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the whale caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous lover--oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him.

The two misfits eventually fall in love. But each of them is ill equipped for romance, and their relationship suggests, in the words of The Washington Post, that "the deeper, darker concern here is not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Zakes Mda is a professor of creative writing at Ohio University. He has been a visiting professor at both Yale and the University of Vermont. Among his novels, The Heart of Redness (FSG, 2002) won the Richard Wright Zora Neale Hurston Legacy Award. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Athens, Ohio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312425872
• ISBN 13: 9780312425876
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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