Year of the Drought
Language: English
Published by Old Street Publishing, 2017
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- Year of the Drought
- Author
- Roland Buti
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Très bon
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1910400378
- ISBN 13
- 9781910400371
It was the month of June, in the year 1976. I was thirteen. It was the start of the summer holidays. It was the year of the drought.
The Sutters have been farming on the Swiss plateau for generations, but now the household teeters on the brink of ruin. The crops are audibly roasting; the cooling systems of the new hen-house are breaking down; even the family sheepdog, Sheriff, has taken to fainting in the unheard-of temperatures.
When the glamorous, metropolitan Cécile comes to stay at the farm, she quickly becomes a focus for dreams that have long been suppressed -- of freedom, art and sex. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Gus, with only his injured dove for company, observes helplessly as his family and his carefree childhood dissolve in the heat.
A tender, funny, elegiac novel about a lost, rural way of life, Year of the Drought is a perfect companion to Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life. Taking place over one apocalyptic summer, it evokes several worlds -- of childhood, of traditional farming, of patriarchy -- at the very moment of their destruction.
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Review
Jury, SWISS LITERATURE PRIZE
'A stunning evocation of an epochal change in rural life, affecting in equal measure animals, people, plants, the soil, and even the air itself..'
DIE ZEIT
'Having won multiple awards in Switzerland, this powerful coming-of-age novel about a boy watching his family implode now appears in an eloquent and poetic English translation.'
GLASGOW HERALD
'weaves a touching coming-of-age tale into an elegy for a dying rural life... terrific'
BIG ISSUE
'A great novel.... masterfully evokes not the end of the world, but the end of a world ... a beautiful and very moving book'
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
'Funny and poetic, this is a novel to savour.'PSYCHOLOGIES MAGAZINE --...
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