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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.

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Praise for Jonathan Buckley's Nostalgia 'As good as anything by the dozen or so big brand names of contemporary Eng Lit. -- Ian Sansom * Guardian *

The River is The River

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      Publisher: Sort of Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/07/2015
      ISBN13: 9781908745545, 978-1908745545
      ISBN10: 1908745541
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      Praise for Jonathan Buckley's Nostalgia 'As good as anything by the dozen or so big brand names of contemporary Eng Lit. -- Ian Sansom * Guardian *

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