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A tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the present KATHARINA VOLCKMER, author of The Appointment

A reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence - Fonseca''s most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date JAVIER CERCAS, author of Soldiers of Salamis

A beautifully knotted novel which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting narrative alongside a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing. Sebaldian in its turns, Austral is a novel of profound questions GUY GUNARATNE, author of Mister, Mister

A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild.

In this innovative novel three losses and three quests are pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in a battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is confronted with the

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    A Paperback by Carlos Fonseca

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      Publisher: Quercus Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/25/2024
      ISBN13: 9781529422610, 978-1529422610
      ISBN10: 1529422612
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the present KATHARINA VOLCKMER, author of The Appointment

      A reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence - Fonseca''s most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date JAVIER CERCAS, author of Soldiers of Salamis

      A beautifully knotted novel which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting narrative alongside a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing. Sebaldian in its turns, Austral is a novel of profound questions GUY GUNARATNE, author of Mister, Mister

      A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild.

      In this innovative novel three losses and three quests are pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in a battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is confronted with the

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