The River is The River

A dazzlingly inventive novel that explores the whole nature of storytelling and writing. A woman named Naomi arrives at her sister''s house, intending, it seems, to say goodbye. She is abandoning her city life for a remote Scottish retreat, which she will share with a man called Bernát, whom she considers some kind of visionary. In a sequence of stories filtered through multiple re-tellings, she illuminates the character of this elusive individual. One story seems of special significance: about Afonso, an Amazon boatman, who could be the last speaker of his mother tongue, a language of apparently unique simplicity and precision. Bernat and Naomi are not, however, the only storytellers here. Naomi''s sister, Kate, is herself working on a novel that begins as a ghost story, but ends up as something rather different: The river is the river.

• | Author: Jonathan Buckley
• | Publisher: Sort of Books
• | Publication Date: Jul 07, 2015
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781908745545
• | ISBN-10: 1908745541