The River is The River

By: Jonathan Buckley

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Paperback | 7 January 2015

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288 Pages

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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 Bern.t, 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.

Industry Reviews

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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