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Edward has lost his short term-memory. He hopes it will return when he sees the cottage in which he lives. He recognizes his overcoat on the hook, his books, the double bed. The mystery however, is Naomi. Edward has no recollection of who she is or why she has left him a love letter.With Thubron’s customary clarity he draws a bleak, amnesiac world in which a young man must face again old griefs and linger ‘like a coward, just this side of knowing’. On the other side, the memory of a destructive, obsessive relationship looms.
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| Weight | 0.161 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2010-4-27 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099552078 |
| About The Author | Colin Thubron was born in London in 1939. He left publishing to travel – mainly in Asia and North Africa, where he made documentary films which were shown on BBC and world television. Afterwards, he returned to the Middle East, and wrote five books on the Area. In 1984, the Book Marketing Council nominated him one of the twenty best contemporary writers on travel. |
This is a cracking read…Character and situation are evoked with masterful economy of language, and the taut, crisp sentences impart a hypnotic quality, as though it were a dream swiftly noted down on waking, before it fades |
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| Other text | The novel's structure makes arresting use of a Metaphysical-like conceit linking the macrocosm and the microcosm – eternity and mortality, black holes and blank memories, dying stars and dead mothers – while the prose itself is admirably short on pretension and subtle in its emotional layering. Thubron's skill as a travel writer comes to the fore in the evocation of the earth's exotic places, dangerous heights and dark depths, the latter echoing the murky terrain of Edward's mind |
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