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A prize-winning novel of untamed murder, sex, and Christianity in thefrozen landscapes and treacherous waters of Iceland
Translated from the French by Hester Velmans
Years ago, a group left Europe to start a colony in Iceland. But as the years wore on, communication between the colony and the people back home stopped. Had the people of New Thule have gone native-or, worse yet, gone pagan? A cardinal ordered an evangelical mission in order to see what has become of the people, and to revive their faith.
But the Short Serpent, the mission's ship, carried its crew toward a horror that no one could conceive. Told in an elegant, compulsive, and increasingly unhinged style, Bernard du Boucheron's The Voyage of the Short Serpent is a masterpiece about mutable human morality in inhuman conditions-a story about truth, obsession, and the myth of utopia.
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Translated from the French by Hester Velmans
Years ago, a group left Europe to start a colony in Iceland. But as the years wore on, communication between the colony and the people back home stopped. Had the people of New Thule have gone native-or, worse yet, gone pagan? A cardinal ordered an evangelical mission in order to see what has become of the people, and to revive their faith.
But the Short Serpent, the mission's ship, carried its crew toward a horror that no one could conceive. Told in an elegant, compulsive, and increasingly unhinged style, Bernard du Boucheron's The Voyage of the Short Serpent is a masterpiece about mutable human morality in inhuman conditions-a story about truth, obsession, and the myth of utopia.
"An eccentric, slightly maddened and often brutally funny ...a tour de force."-The New York Times Book Review
"Laugh-out-loud funny and revolting at once...The writing is splendid, and this is a strangely pleasurable and completely riveting read." -Booklist
"A spare, cunningly ironic novel set in the wilds of medieval [Greenland]...Sparse, rawboned and fascinating."-Kirkus
"Laugh-out-loud funny and revolting at once...The writing is splendid, and this is a strangely pleasurable and completely riveting read." -Booklist
"A spare, cunningly ironic novel set in the wilds of medieval [Greenland]...Sparse, rawboned and fascinating."-Kirkus
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- ÉditeurGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Date d'édition2008
- ISBN 10 0715637525
- ISBN 13 9780715637524
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages208
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ISBN 13 : 9780715637524
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