"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother's murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a seaport town in France, he reconstructs his past through storytelling and myth, resulting in an astonishing exploration of memory and imagination.
- ISBN10 0771028970
- ISBN13 9780771028977
- Publish Date 1 April 1990
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McClelland & Stewart
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 220
- Language English