Title : Water Music - T. Coraghessan Boyle - Book
Summary :
In Europe, while the 18th century expires in multiple convulsions and Paris tires of the guillotine, the Scottish explorer Mungo Park discovers the kingdom of Ségou in Africa, where human madness is expressed with biblical simplicity. Although he will return to the country where a world awaits him on which progress is already cutting its teeth, Mungo will not rest, to avoid becoming a puppet in his turn, to respond to the demon of travel... TC Boyle, compared to García Márquez for this novel intertwining destinies, has succeeded in the perfectly crazy bet of bringing together in a single melting pot all the forms of fiction in which the Anglo-Saxon genius has excelled for three hundred years. And this from the libertine tale to the American noir novel, raising Water Music to the rank of cult book...
- EAN: 9782859405311
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