Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #445201 in Books
• Published on: 1994-10-31
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Customer Reviews

The beauty of time moving slowly
I'd call this a masterpiece of rural fiction. The novel unfolds so beautifully and reveals a seemingly timeless set of lives, yet the events of the world peak in and force you to understand how even isolated lives are linked into the flow of history. By the end of these pages the world has changed dramatically, tragically, beautifully; perhaps all of the past is a tapestry of such lives woven to present just the headline events, but I don't recall another writer who has bettered Chatwin's presentation of this fact. Its a short novel, very easily read, and yet will provide you with a place to send your thoughts for days and weeks afterwards.