The African Shore

Informationen zum Autor Rodrigo Rey Rosa is a prominent member of the Guatemalan literary scene. Many of his works of fiction have been translated and internationally acclaimed, including Dust on Her Tongue, The Beggar's Knife, and The Pelcari Project, all translated into English by the late Paul Bowles. He lives in Guatemala. Jeffrey Gray is professor of English, Seton Hall University, New Jersey. He is author of Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry and editor of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Klappentext Presents a tale of alienation, misrecognition and intrigue set in and around Tangier. In this book, the author weaves a double narrative involving a Colombian tourist pleasurably stranded in Morocco and a young shepherd who dreams of migrating to Spain and of "riches to come". At the centre of their tale is an owl both treasured and coveted.

Product details

• Authors: Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Rodrigo Rey Rosa
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Gray (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9780300196108
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19610-8
• Series: Margellos World Republic of Le
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature