Bernardo Atxaga
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Water over Stones...weaves in themes of friendship, nature, and death. Yet in capturing a span of time from the early 1970s, when the shadow of the Franco dictatorship still loomed, to 2017,... [three] boys must learn to leave their old beliefs behind and move on...As threads of water run over stones in the river, so these lives run together, and, over time, technology and industry bring new changes as the wheel of life turns"--
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the River Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafes of Paris. His glamorous wife Christine has a further ambition: to own seven houses in France, a house for every year he has been abroad. At Lalande Biran's side are the ex-legionnaire van Thiegel, a brutal womaniser, and the servile,...
