Barkskins: Longlisted For The Baileys Women’s Prize Fiction 2017 Annie Proulx Fourth Estate Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία Modern

Longlisted For The Baileys Women’s Prize Fiction 2017 Now A Major Television Series From Annie Proulx Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Of Shipping News And Brokeback Mountain Comes Her Masterwork: An Epic Dazzling Violent Magnificently Dramatic Novel About Taking Down World’s Forests In Late Seventeenth Century Two Penniless Young Frenchmen René Sel Charles Duquet Arrive New France Bound To Feudal Lord “Seigneur ” Three Years Exchange Land They Become Wood-Cutters – Barkskins Suffers Extraordinary Hardship Oppressed By Forest He Is Charged With Clearing Forced Marry Mi’kmaw Woman Their Descendants Live Trapped Between Inimical Cultures But Crafty Ruthless Runs Away Seigneur Becomes Fur Trader Then Sets Up Timber Business Tells Stories Over Hundred Travels Across North America Europe China Zealand Under Stunningly Brutal Conditions Revenge Rivals Accidents Pestilence Indian Attacks Cultural Annihilation Again Seize What Can Presumed Infinite Resource Leaving Modern-Day Characters Face Possible Ecological Collapse Proulx’s Inimitable Genius Creation Who Are So Vivid Greed Lust Vengefulness Or Simple Compassion Hope That We Follow Them Fierce Attention One Most Formidable Compelling American Writers Greatest Magnificent Marriage History Imagination Σελίδες: 736 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm