An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village southeast of Rome. Written in a rich and poetic style, Grove is an exquisite novel of grief, love and landscapes.
An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Written in a rich and poetic style, Grove is an exquisite novel of grief, love and landscapes.
Über den Autor
Esther Kinsky grew up by the river Rhine and lived in London for twelve years. She is the author of six volumes of poetry, four novels (Summer Resort, Banatsko, River, Grove) numerous essays on language, poetry and translation and three children's books. She has translated many notable English (John Clare, Henry David Thoreau, Iain Sinclair) and Polish (Joanna Bator, Miron Bialoszewski, Magdalena Tulli) authors into German. Both River and Grove won numerous literary prizes in Germany.
Klappentext
An unnamed narrator travels to a village southeast of Rome, embarking on walks and outings while going over the sublime and the banal with equal rigour, looking back all the while at a communist 1970s past. Translated from German by Caroline Schmidt.
