- Paperback: 504 pages
- Publisher: House of Anansi Press (July 16 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1770890009
- ISBN-13: 978-1770890008
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 703 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #405,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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". . . an intricate, thoughtful book . . . it has a sensuous beauty, and a bracing power in the construction of its sentences and the complexity of its structure." --Montreal Gazette, August 26, 2011
"Much of the writing is beautiful. Sublime. And carefully executed. A worthy debut . . . one looks forward to seeing what this author will dream up next." --January Magazine, August 30, 2011
"Much of the writing is beautiful. Sublime. And carefully executed. A worthy debut . . . one looks forward to seeing what this author will dream up next." --January Magazine, August 30, 2011
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She came walking out of the desert, just as the famous poet Rimbaud had centuries before. Now the nameless woman lies horribly scarred and close to death in an asylum deep in the North African desert. An Australian official, a man code-named John Devlin, has come to question her. It is clear that the woman and Devlin share some kind of past, and all kinds of secrets.
As the wind calls up a deadly sandstorm, the inhabitants of the asylum discover they are linked by a diary written by Rimbaud. Over the next 120 years, everyone who sees the diary will want it. Most will do anything to possess it. For the ruthless Polish aristocrat Aleksander Walenska, the diary holds secrets that will bring him wealth and power; for his troubled and religious son Czeslaw, it is a book of death, a penance to be fulfilled by sacrifice; for Czeslaw’s sister, it is a book of the desert that will redeem her family’s name; for Devlin, the diary is worthless and the desert is not a place of revelation but of modern terrorism.
Only the nameless woman, whose dark past is entwined with those who would possess Rimbaud’s diary at any cost, knows the true worth of the book . . .
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Rich, dense and rewarding, Mar 5 2011
By Petrichor - Published on Amazon.com
It was not until I reached the end of this novel that I realised it was written by one of my favourite film reviewers. I'm most impressed!
This was an engrossing story with a number of threads to keep track of. At time the writing could be repetitive- yes, there were deliberate motifs, but some words and phrases seem to be overly used for no real reason.
The story could be slow in places, but was intriguing enough to keep me going right until the end.
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