Nothing But Dust - Couverture souple

Collette, Sandrine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1787701565 ISBN 13 : 9781787701564

Editeur : Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

A primal tale of cruelty and redemption
The family farm has run to ruin. Rafael’s father has abandoned them. His older brothers, the twins Mauro and Joaquin, blame Rafael for their father’s departure and exact revenge on their baby brother. Steban, Rafael’s other sibling, is a simpleton whose affections and allegiances change with the shifting winds. Ruling over this dysfunctional roost is a tyrannical and avaricious mother.
There is nothing bucolic about existence on a dilapidated farm on the lonely Patagonian steppe. Life is ruthless, unforgiving, and bloody. As the family tensions mount, daily life degenerates into open warfare, revealing dark truths about the human soul.
For readers of Coetzee’s Disgrace, the writing of Dorothy Alison, and the southern gothic of William Faulkner, Nothing but Dust is a gripping, unsentimental, ultimately majestic story about life in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sandrine Collette was born in Paris in 1970. She divides her time between Nanterre, where she teaches philosophy and literature, and Burgundy, where she has a horse stud. She is the author of numerous novels. Nothing but Dust, winner of the Landerneau Prize for crime fiction, is her English language debut.

Alison Anderson’s translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of the Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787701565
• ISBN 13: 9781787701564
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible