On That Wave of Gulls - Couverture souple

Head, Vernon R.L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1431432997 ISBN 13 : 9781431432998

Editeur : Jacana Media, 2023

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World comes On That Wave of Gulls. An audacious novel, the tale is told by three characters – an architect, a Khoisan vagrant and a seagull, all of whom recount their lives in Cape Town. Hieronymus Vos is an overweight, white architect, recently fallen on hard times, and married to a beautiful, black British-Caribbean woman. Although he hates the ocean, his practice has, until recently, been doing very well by designing glitzy millionaires’ mansions on the Atlantic Seaboard. Pooi is a homeless man, recently arrived from the Kalahari, with a patchy grip on reality. He thinks he is the moon and wants to teach himself to swim so that he can reach Robben Island and fulfil a promise. The third narrator is Calypso, a female seagull who needs to find a mate and lay an egg to pass on her legacy and her identity. On That Wave of Gulls is a shrewd and lyrical tour de force by a natural storyteller. The everlasting story of how men and women relate in the closed system of violence, abuse and intimacy is masterfully told in this vivid novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vernon R.L. Head is a novelist, architect, environmentalist and birdwatcher. His first book, The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World, became a bestseller. He is currently pursuing some writings about the sea.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jacana Media
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1431432997
• ISBN 13: 9781431432998
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible