There’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land’s past...
There’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land’s past.
It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny.
Is Lanny a bird? He is a leaf. Max Porter really blew me away. Grief was alright but Lanny literally snapped. Whimsical, subversive, sardonic, apathetic, poetical, and so on. A verse-novel: A fiction and a poem, and somewhere in-between. I'm stunned by Port...
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0 有用 califlo 2023-03-11 11:40:02 美国
For some reason I’m getting Petrushka vibes. 小小的一本，怪诞的戏剧+诗歌+folklore结合体，有几页排版像是把句子抛向天空再让它们落到纸上一样。很奇妙的体验
0 有用 amstel 2023-03-21 21:53:46 北京
这种书不是我的菜。
0 有用 amstel 2023-03-21 21:53:46 北京
这种书不是我的菜。
0 有用 califlo 2023-03-11 11:40:02 美国
For some reason I’m getting Petrushka vibes. 小小的一本，怪诞的戏剧+诗歌+folklore结合体，有几页排版像是把句子抛向天空再让它们落到纸上一样。很奇妙的体验