Almada Selva
Almada Selva - The Wind That Lays Waste A Novel - Paperback
Almada Selva - The Wind That Lays Waste A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A taut lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural Argentina The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni his teenage daughter when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God morality and his own righteousness and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic's assistant and a restless skeptical preacher's daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains. Selva Almada's exquisitely crafted debut with its limpid and confident prose is profound and poetic a tactile experience of the mountain the sun the squat trees the broken cars the sweat - stained shirts and the destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical beautiful and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.
Title: The Wind That Lays Waste A Novel
Author(s): Almada Selva
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555978457
Pages: 136 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/9/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A taut lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural Argentina The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni his teenage daughter when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God morality and his own righteousness and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic's assistant and a restless skeptical preacher's daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains. Selva Almada's exquisitely crafted debut with its limpid and confident prose is profound and poetic a tactile experience of the mountain the sun the squat trees the broken cars the sweat - stained shirts and the destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical beautiful and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.
Title: The Wind That Lays Waste A Novel
Author(s): Almada Selva
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555978457
Pages: 136 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/9/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
