The Consolation of Maps - Softcover

Bourke, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786487586 ISBN 13: 9781786487582

Publisher: riverrun, 2018

Synopsis

Kenji Tanabe finds maps easier to read than people. At the elite Tokyo gallery where he works, he sells antique maps by selling the stories that he sees within their traces: their contribution to progress, their dramatic illustrations, their exquisite compasses. But no compass or cartography can guide him through the events that will follow the sudden and unexpected offer of a job in America. There, Theodora Appel runs a company that is more like a family. Brilliantly successful, beguilingly secretive, she gradually initiates Kenji into her rarefied world. Only someone like him - quiet, intensely committed and discreet - could be allowed to see beneath the surface to what his employer is hiding. Theodora has never recovered from the death of her lover, and her obsession to reclaim the past threatens them all. Moving across countries and cultures, The Consolation of Maps charts an attempt to understand the tide of history, the geography of people and the boundless territory of loss.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Bourke was born in Ireland and lives in Italy. A graduate of University College Dublin, he is author of a book on relations between Europe and Japan. The Consolation of Maps is his first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: riverrun
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786487586
• ISBN 13: 9781786487582
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224