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A woman named Naomi arrives at her sister's house, intending, it seems, to say goodbye. She is abandoning her city life for a remote Scottish retreat, which she will share with a man called Bernat, whom she considers some kind of visionary. In a sequence of stories filtered through multiple re-tellings, she illuminates the character of this elusive individual. One story seems of special significance: about Afonso, an Amazon boatman, who could be the last speaker of his mother tongue, a language of apparently unique simplicity and precision. Bernat and Naomi are not, however, the only storytellers here. Naomi's sister, Kate, is herself working on a novel that begins as a ghost story, but ends up as something rather different: The river is the river.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: River is The River
• Author: Jonathan Buckley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781908745545
• ISBN: 1908745541
• ID: 09221514
• Publisher: Sort of Books
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 138 × 216 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. July 2015

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