The Antidote

''Karen Russell is one in a million'' New York Times From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America''s Dust Bowl. Visit The Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers. But after the great dust storm that flattens wheatfields, buries houses and kills a newlywed couple just a few feet from their car, the Antidote wakes up empty - as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever find out, her life will be in danger. To the Antidote''s surprising defence come a farmer, his basketball-playing niece and a Black photographer with her time-travelling camera. Apart, they run from the memories that have brought them to this lonely brink. Together, they face down the tornado coming their way. The Antidote is above all a reckoning with a nation''s forgetting - theft, dispossession, wilful blindness, passed on generation to generation. The Dust Bowl echo with warnings of our own time, daring to challenge us with what might have been - and what still could be. ''A brilliant writer with an amazing imagination'' The Times

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Russell, Russell Karen
• Editore: Chatto and Windus
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781784745646
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-564-6
• Pagine: 432
• Dimensioni: 154 mm x 234 mm x 32 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; USA, Nebraska, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Occult fiction, c 1930 to c 1939, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor