River - by Esther Kinsky (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>On a series of solitary walks around London, a woman recalls the rivers she's encountered in prose reminiscent of Sebald.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A magnificent novel.--<i>The New Yorker</i></b></p><p><b>This is a book to relish.--<i>The Guardian</i></b></p><p>A woman moves to a London suburb near the River Lea, without knowing quite why or for how long. Over a series of long, solitary walks she reminisces about the rivers she has encountered during her life, from the Rhine, her childhood river, to the Saint Lawrence, and a stream in Tel Aviv. Filled with poignancy and poetic observation, <i>River</i> is an ode to nature, edgelands, and the transience of all things human.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>The woman who has fled her own hinterland for the ragged fringe of London discovers a dreamlike city of melancholy magic.--<b><i>The Economist</b></i></p><p>"Esther Kinsky's unnamed narrator observes and remembers, piling up beautiful, silt-like layers of description and memory until it becomes difficult to know which is which . . . This is a book to relish."--<b><i>The Guardian</i></b></p><p>"The form of <i>River</i> mirrors its content; its consciousness flows with a sense that, like water to the sea, it will one day lose itself."--<b><i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b></p><p>"A beautiful exploration of memory's unbreakable bonds with its natural surroundings."--<b><i>Culture Trip</i></b></p><p><i>River</i> is an unusual and stealthy sort of book in that it's the opposite of what it appears to be--which is a rather apt dissimulation, as it turns out. Yes, it rifles through both the rich and rank materials of the world, turning over its trinkets and its tat, in a manner that is initially quite familiar--however, this curious inventory demonstrates an eye for the grotesque and does not hold the world aloft, or in place. Here, details blur boundaries rather than reaffirming them, positing a worldview that is haunted and uncanny. Shifting through unremarkable terrain we encounter the departed, the exiled, the underneath, the other side. We are on firm ground, always; yet whether that ground is here or there, now or then, is, increasingly, a distinction that is difficult and perhaps irrelevant to make. Sea or sky, boy or girl, east or west, king or vagrant, silt or gold; by turns grubby, theatrical, and exquisite, we are closer to the realm of Bakhtin's carnival than we are to the well-trod paths of psychogeography. Kinsky's <i>River</i> does indeed force us to stop in our tracks and take in the opposite side.--<b>Claire-Louise Bennett, author of <i>Pond</i></b></p><p>Esther Kinsky's novel outshines everything that has recently been published in the German language with patient stamina. It is full of culture without being erudite, it is full of knowledge without being smart-aleck. <i>River</i> is a democratic book, witty, wise and touchingly beautiful.--<b>Katharina Teutsch, <i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</i></b></p><p>This book is a sensation of language.--<b>Susanne Mayer, <i>Die Zeit</i></b></p><p>No matter whether Kinsky describes things, foreign people, or landscapes, the surplus love she has at her disposal becomes visible in the sensitive prose in which she sees the world.--</b>Hans-Peter Kunisch, <i>Süddeutsche Zeitung</i></b></p><p>Brought to life by language that is both precise and multi-layered, <i>River</i> is a magnificent book on the disappearance of landscape.--<b><i>Le Monde</b></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Iain Galbraith is a widely published translator of German into English. He has translated W. G. Sebald and Jan Wagner, notably. He won the John Dryden Prize for Literary Translation in 2004.</p>
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