9780393048322
Fly-Truffler
Gustaf Sobin
ISBN 13: 9780393048322
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
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Out of the pungent soil and wind-struck orchards of Provence, this enchanting love story will make you believe, if you ever doubted it, in the power of love and the lengths people will go to keep it alive. Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled--the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles--every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence. Since the death of his young wife, Julieta, the truffles have come to represent something far more than a delicacy for Cabassac's palate: they trigger an evocative sequence of dream visions in which he and his lost wife enter, on winter nights, a state of intimate and prolonged communion. As Cabassac becomes increasingly involved in his dream life with Julieta, he loses his hold on his teaching obligations, on managing his estate, on his waking life altogether. Set against the fading of traditional Provencal culture and an incandescent Mediterranean landscape, The Fly- Truffler celebrates a love that, by its very ardor, outlasts a lifetime.
Review:
"[A] strange and serious love-tale imbued by the surreal....Not for literalists, but a symbolic-emotional tale that immerses the reader into the very air, feel, and texture of ancient Provence...."
Kirkus, 12/01/1999
Review:"[M]arvelous, mesmerizing....Mr. Sobin, an American expatriate who has lived in Provence for 35 years, writes in an English reminiscent of Nabokov's in its detail....[A] great pleasure to read. It is one of those rare, haunting novels that you consume in a single sitting and that you put down wondering what day it is and where you are...."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, 02/07/2000
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