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Informationen zum Autor Claire is the Breton-British author of several books including The Shipwrecked House which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Awards. She founded Sabotage Reviews and its Saboteur Awards to support independent literature, running them both until 2018. She now lives in her native Brittany, France with her two cats and copious painting supplies. Klappentext Formally inventive and intricately composed, Astéronymes is a book of redactions - and an elegy for places and people that have been ruined by time, erosion or neglect. Astéronyme, n. (French). A sequence of asterisks used to hide a name or password.In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Shipwrecked House (Guardian First Book Award longlisted), Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien takes us to a place where ancient stone circles collide with the language of the internet.Trévien becomes curator of imaginary museums, indexing objects and histories with a quixotic energy. The stunning central sequence recounts a journey across the Scottish island of Arran, where myths are carved into remote caves and a mountain hides behind a 'froufrou of gas'.
