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16%OFFKatie Kitamura - Gone to the Forest - 9781846689246 - V9781846689246
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Gone to the Forest

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Description for Gone to the Forest Paperback. Since his mother's death, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained peace on their farm. After a catastrophic volcanic eruption ignites the nation's smoldering discontent into open revolution, Tom, his father and Carine find themselves questioning their loyalties to one another and their determination to salvage their way of life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of international literature's rising young stars weaves a brilliant tale of family drama and political turmoil. Since his mother's death ten years earlier, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained peace on their family farm. Everything is frozen under the old man's vicious, relentless control - even, Tom soon discovers, his own future. When a young woman named Carine enters their lives, the complex triangle of intrigue and affection escalates the tension ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
204g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846689246
SKU
V9781846689246
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About Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura is based in New York and London. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Wired and the Guardian. She was a finalist in the 2010 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for her debut novel, The Longshot.

Reviews for Gone to the Forest
The death-throes of a colonial world captured in dark, obsessive prose, punctuated by images of strange, surreal beauty. One thinks at times of both Coetzee and Gordimer, but Kitamura is very much her own writer
Salman Rushdie Beautifully observed ... the cumulative effect of this shocking, desperate book is something that approaches magnificent
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Kitamura is in ... Read more

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