- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2018 · Shortlist · for the translation by Iain Galbraith
River
Am Fluß
Esther Kinsky (born 1956)
Translated by Iain Galbraith
English editions
In EnglishRiver
Transit Books · United States · 4 September 2018 · Paperback · 357 pages
River
Fitzcarraldo Editions · United Kingdom · 17 January 2018 · Paperback · 359 pages
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On the edge of London, where the city fades into the countryside, the River Lea runs past derelict works, shabby housing and sudden pockets of wild ground. A narrator explores this terrain in nine walks, meeting the misfits who live on the margins of any big city, and lets the marshes open a space in which she can remember and think. For her the river marks a limit and points a way at once. Illustrated with her own photographs, the book is about looking closely and what such attention can teach.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 386 pages in the original
- Genres
- Nature (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom
- First published
- 2014 by Matthes & Seitz Berlin
- Author's age
- 58 when first published
- ISBN
9783957570567 (original)
9781910695296 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)
9781945492174 (Transit Books, United States)
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