El Mono - Couverture souple

Cleaver, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909716170 ISBN 13 : 9781909716179

Editeur : Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Is such an evocative portrayal of Colombia, the wild and beautiful landscape.' --Trip Fiction

'The story serves as a cautionary tale. The beauty of places like the Páramo is fragile and it can't survive being rendered into a crumpled, pitted moonscape desertified by toxins, criss-crossed with tyre marks, depleted of people, flora and fauna.' --Sounds and Colours

'The author, Tony Cleaver, resides in Colombia; and this comes through strongly in his writing. His descriptions of the country are rich in detail, especially those of a typical finca, a large farmstead near Bogota. His use of the Spanish language, invoked, for example, to describe the frailejones of the páramo, helps to create authentic-feeling and vivid descriptions of the rural side of Colombia. The reader is shown a strong respect for nature, notable in the descriptions of pumas and condors, where Cleaver's eager words betray his own infectious delight at the sights he portrays.' --The Bubble

'Tony Cleaver presents in his writing an extraordinary easiness which shows that the complexity attached to this country -which story goes back to the XVI century- has not affected or changed the magic of the Colombian culture and its natural scenery.' --Travelling Book Club

Présentation de l'éditeur

When Karin Roth goes to Bogotá as an exchange student she quickly falls in love with the country and its people. Lively, attractive, and opinionated, she soon has a wide circle of Colombian friends, and is studying and partying in equal measure. A trip to stay in a friend's fincaor farm, however, awakens her to the beauty and grandeur of the Colombian landscape while an encounter with the strange, fair-headed El Mono, a mountain man with a profound, near-mystical connection to the Andean people and wildlife, conjures deep, troubling emotions. Offered a summer internship in a multinational in Bogotá, she finds her loyalties are divided. Caught between the dazzling, cosmopolitan world of big business and the exhilarating freedom of the mountains and the pueblos, she must undergo a painful journey towards self-knowledge and redemption.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909716170
• ISBN 13: 9781909716179
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible