Nineveh - Couverture souple

Rose-Innes, Henrietta

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910709166 ISBN 13 : 9781910709160

Editeur : Aardvark Bureau, 2016

Synopsis

An elegant and evocative novel about people, place - and pests - by one of South Africa's most exciting writers. Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in 'the unlovely and unloved'. Yet in contrast to her father, she is not in the business of pest extermination, but pest relocation. Katya's unconventional approach brings her to the attention of a property developer whose luxury estate on the fringes of Cape Town, Nineveh, remains uninhabited thanks to an infestation of mysterious insects.
As Katya is drawn ever deeper into the chaotic urban wilderness of Nineveh, she must confront unwelcome intrusions from her own past.
A masterful novel exploring the tensions between the natural and man-made worlds; the impossibility of imposing order on an organic landscape; and the beautiful chaos of nature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Henrietta Rose-Innes is from Cape Town but is currently completing a PhD at UEA. She won the Caine Prize for African Writing 2008 and the HSBC / PEN Short Story Prize 2007 and was runner-up in the BBC Short Story Award 2012. Her work is included in the Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and is published in several languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aardvark Bureau
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910709166
• ISBN 13: 9781910709160
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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