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First Life of Adamastor

Brink, André
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099284550
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
105 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144

Forfatter
Brink, André

Om bidragsyterne

Andre Brink (1935 - 2015) was one of South Africa's most prominent writers and is the author of several novels, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He has won South Africa's most important literay prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012.

First Life of Adamastor

Brink, André
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
Brink, André
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
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A wonderfully entertaining work of fiction

- Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times Book Review

A simple love story... A joyful psalm sung through the collective unconscious that unites all people... fun, fresh and firmly recommended... He is a writer of inspired violence and his shifts of viewpoint are thrilling and significant, and deeply honouring to the profession of literature

The Times

[Enjoy] the pleasure of Brink's playful wit and his colonist's skill in surveying an unknown mental landscape

Independent

The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered André Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks of the Peninsula, first appears in European literature in the sixteenth century - much about the time of the first known contact between seagoing European explorers and the natives of Southern Africa. How, Brink asks, would that meeting have looked from the landward side? What role would the visitors take in the mythology of an utterly different culture, with its own deities, its own accumulated story? Brink, in this extraordinary, moving and potentially explosive creation has unearthed from the sun-carved land itself the missing meanings of a myth that has waited five centuries to be invented.
Les mer
The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered André Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape?
'Terrifically well-written... Andre Brink is confidently at home with his myth. The details are fresh, convincing and bawdy' - Observer

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A wonderfully entertaining work of fiction

- Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times Book Review

A simple love story... A joyful psalm sung through the collective unconscious that unites all people... fun, fresh and firmly recommended... He is a writer of inspired violence and his shifts of viewpoint are thrilling and significant, and deeply honouring to the profession of literature

The Times

[Enjoy] the pleasure of Brink's playful wit and his colonist's skill in surveying an unknown mental landscape

Independent

The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered André Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks of the Peninsula, first appears in European literature in the sixteenth century - much about the time of the first known contact between seagoing European explorers and the natives of Southern Africa. How, Brink asks, would that meeting have looked from the landward side? What role would the visitors take in the mythology of an utterly different culture, with its own deities, its own accumulated story? Brink, in this extraordinary, moving and potentially explosive creation has unearthed from the sun-carved land itself the missing meanings of a myth that has waited five centuries to be invented.
Les mer
The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered André Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape?
'Terrifically well-written... Andre Brink is confidently at home with his myth. The details are fresh, convincing and bawdy' - Observer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099284550
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
105 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144

Forfatter
Brink, André

Om bidragsyterne

Andre Brink (1935 - 2015) was one of South Africa's most prominent writers and is the author of several novels, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He has won South Africa's most important literay prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012.

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