Line - Couverture souple

Bourke, Niall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916291422 ISBN 13 : 9781916291423

Editeur : Tramp Press, 2021

Synopsis

No one hast ever left the Line, nor shalt thou. To do so wouldst dishonour the sacrifices of all those gone before.
No one hast ever left the Line, nor shalt thou. To do so wouldst mean thy family must pay your penance.
Thou mayst leave thy place in the Line but only once – when thou dost marry.
But thou can only move down the Line, never up. For that is how thou will know it is true love.
And because moving up would be skipping.
And that is the most im-portant rule of all.

Thou Shalt Not Skip The Line.
Thou Shalt Not Skip The Line

Willard, his mother and his girlfriend Nyla have spent their entire lives in an endless procession, where daily survival is dictated by the ultimate impera-tive: obey the rules, or lose your place in the Line. Everything changes the day Willard’s mother dies and he finds a book hidden among her few belongings.

Line is speculative fic-tion at its most ambitious, leading the reader on a journey to make sense of a world that is ulti-mately not so different from our own.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Niall Bourke is a writer and a teacher. His work has been published widely in magazines and journals in Ireland and the UK, and his poems and stories have been short-listed for numerous awards, including the Costa Short Story Award and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. He lives in South London with his partner, his daughter and his cat.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tramp Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916291422
• ISBN 13: 9781916291423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible