Salina: The Three Exiles - Couverture souple

Gaudé, Laurent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1787702863 ISBN 13 : 9781787702868

Editeur : Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

A timeless story between foundational tale and myth When Salina dies, it falls to her youngest son to tell her story, a story of violence and suffering, vengeance and passion. Exiled three times, the first time as a new–born abandoned outside a village by a mysterious horseman, Salina was taken in and raised by a clan that only ever saw her as a stranger and an enemy to be defeated. Three times a mother, her children born from strife, Salina never knew love, and revenge became her reason to live. For her to gain admittance to the cemetery, to a place of peace at last, Salina’s son must face up and tell the tale of Salina’s ordeals―her rape the most harrowing―in minute detail. He has no choice but to give voice to all the hardship that for years fed into Salina’s rage.  With this short novel set in an ancestral world, Laurent Gaudé explores a narrative space where time flows to rhythmic rituals, where fate blurs to legend, and secrets become myth.

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À propos des auteurs

Laurent Gaudé is a French novelist and playwright. After being nominated for the 2002 Prix Goncourt with The Death of King Tsongor, he won the award in 2004 for his novel The House of Scorta. Europa Editions published his novel Hear Our Defeats, and his essay in free verse Our Europe.

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: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1787702863
• ISBN 13: 9781787702868
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible