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River

River

Author(s): Esther Kinsky

Location(s): East London, World

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern Day

In RIVER, a woman moves to a London suburb for reasons that are unclear. She takes long, solitary walks by the River Lea, observing and describing her surroundings and the unusual characters she encounters. Over the course of these wanderings she amasses a collection of found objects and photographs and is drawn into reminiscences of the different rivers which haunted the various stages of her life, from the Rhine, where she grew up, to the Saint Lawrence, the Hooghly, and the banks of the Oder. Written in language that is as precise as it is limpid, Riveris a remarkable novel, full of poignant images and poetic observations, an ode to nature, edgelands, and the transience of all things human.

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