A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places.
On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature’s tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water.
These three stories span countries and eras, but they are all connected by, and reliant on, the unpredictable power and languid beauty of rivers that give life as quickly as they take it away.
- ISBN10 1503901262
- ISBN13 9781503901261
- Publish Date 5 June 2018
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Amazon Publishing
- Imprint 47North
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 194
- Language English