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(0)Cynan Jones
1) The Long Dry
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English
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As a Welsh farmer plows through a long, hot day, the boundaries blur between animal and human in this acclaimed, award-winning novel. On a long, hot day, Gareth searches for a missing pregnant cow. A dog must be put down, there are ducks to go in the pond, there are children, and there is Kate, his wife, who may be an uncrossable distance from him. Jones's rural Wales is alive with the necessities of our own animal instincts and most human longing....
2) La tejonera
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Español
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Daniel ayuda a las ovejas a traer corderos al mundo. El hombre corpulento caza tejones con sus perros. Trabajar el tejón para luego ponerlo a pelear ante los apostadores es un "deporte" prohibido pero bastante cultivado, una subcultura que resiste y una ceremonia de iniciación: aquí la violencia se hereda de padres a hijos.
Y aunque Cynan Jones no escatima en detalles, La tejonera es un milagro de pocas palabras y la demostración de que una novela...
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English
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"Praise for Cynan Jones:"[A] piercing novella. Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Jones's perfectly pitched novel will appeal to anyone looking beyond sheer thrills."-Library Journal"This slim volume has all the gravity of a black hole, and reading it is like standing on the event horizon. It's like a more beautiful Cormac McCarthy; a darker W.H. Auden."-Elliot Bay Book Company"There's...
4) Cove
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95 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be here is all but shattered. He will need to rely on his instincts, resilience, and imagination to get safely back to the woman he dimly senses is waiting for his return. This is an extraordinary, visceral portrait of a man locked in a struggle with the forces of nature"--Page [4] of cover.