Evocative of an era of raw possibility; unflinching as it traces the veins of violence that run through South Africa's bedrock to this day." Henrietta Rose "A mythical tale of heart and soul, cruelty and courage, fear and redemption. ...
The train station, its windows as large as those in any ca- thedral, was a cavernous space inhabited by echoes that seemed to have been cursed with immortality and murmured continually of the past—the foot that had already fallen, ...
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his ...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE 'Moving, transfixing' BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES 'Absorbing...powerful' Catherine Taylor, GUARDIAN A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old ...
A gripping, terrifying and unforgettable story.’ Elleke Boehmer 'An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world... a moving, transfixing novel of loss, ...
In this interrogative space inhabited by the limits of illusion echoes the will to truth achieving its goal. Our time lies between any modernity and its futures, haunted by whether our modernity will be the same again and how it might ...
flowing water as speaking eloquence, and the secondary meditation toward the derivative character of just that theme, ... famous cliché of neoclassicism, the “O could I flow like thee” couplets from Denham's Cooper's Hill (see note 4).
In an empty hall that should be comfortably inhabited, echoes of our voices and motions mock our very presence in the hollow space.34 Ghost writer Zampano elaborates on the spatial and physical aspects of echo, adding that it is because ...
DODD, blacksmith William SIMPKIN; lighthouse-keeper Captain John PRESTON; Derdanook; Billy Wha Wha; ... ECHO 70: IAN D. CLARK ON THE NORTHERN WATHAWURRUNG AND ANDREW PORTEOUS 1860-1877 JAMES on J. T. Gellibrand – Michael CANNON [ed.]: ...
... pitches or rhythms) and empty space, inhabited by alien (unrecognisable) and/or sinister (crows) creatures. ... ascending quasi-v0 cal chorus.13 Subject-position and 'psychic space' As described so far, the spaces in 'Echoes' are ...