Strangers at the Port
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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, apart from her older sister Giovanna, is a donkey. Giulia and Giovanna's days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.
Until the men arrive. And a foreign yacht anchors at the port. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes.
From the author of Dolores, Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, apart from her older sister Giovanna, is a donkey. Giulia and Giovanna's days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.
Until the men arrive. And a foreign yacht anchors at the port. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes.
From the author of Dolores, Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.
'Enchanting and haunting'
RACHEL RODDY
'A fable for our times'
SPECTATOR
'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original'
LUCIE ELVEN
'A seaside Gothic tale teeming with superstition and mistrust'
READINGS MONTHLY
RACHEL RODDY
'A fable for our times'
SPECTATOR
'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original'
LUCIE ELVEN
'A seaside Gothic tale teeming with superstition and mistrust'
READINGS MONTHLY
Info
ISBN: 9781399608183
Published Date: May 9, 2024
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Language: English
Page Count: 215
Size: 7.75" l x 5.13" w x 0.75" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Women's Fiction