Cole the Magnificent
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<p>Williams does what few novelists dare to: he takes the form and he runs with it. The result is an extraordinary feat of imagination and daring; a novel of enormous heart, learning and wisdom. Cole's journey is a difficult one: trial snaps at the heels of travail. The reader may not realise it at first but Cole's tale, which runs in many directions, reveals a clearer path. This is a gently teasing, playful, mischievous novel ¿ Williams seems at first to give the reader the tail of an animal to grab hold of and hang on when in fact (of course!) what we are holding is Williams' fine novel and the story it contains: a compass in our hands. In the end, it doesn't matter if we can't know for certain who Cole was: a more profound truth has surfaced: Cole, a man broken to pieces by a promise he was determined to keep, is remade. He shows us what it is to live.</p>
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The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground City which he has promised his love Sigrid he will find. Somewhere else entirely, Niven sits in a palace garden taking lessons in astronomy and architecture, dreaming up ways to escape being married off to one of her father's friends. Cole's story is pieced together from folk songs and fragments as he travels ever onwards towards his destiny: a new life even stranger than the one before. Niven too will learn what it means to leave the garden of childhood. Their world is one of witchcraft and wishing, wisdom and regret, as they slowly learn how much it is possible to love, and suffer for the sake of love. Comic, grotesque, lyrical, and immensely readable, Tony Williams's fantasy picaresque is a reader's delight. A sweeping yarn through the darkest of ages, filled with rogues, lovers, murderers, swindlers, and saints.
Weitere Details
Erschienen: 15.08.2023
Umfang: 224 S., 0.74 MB
Sprache: ENG
ISBN/EAN: 9781784632793
Umbreit-Nr.: 388230
