One Boat

Buckley, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1804271764 / ISBN 13: 9781804271766

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025

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Book & text block show some external wear/scuffing/dirtiness. Interiors are clean with unmarked text/pictures. Binding of the text block is intact & firm. Good reading copy!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Boat
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1804271764
• ISBN 13: 9781804271766
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.

On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly – her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew. Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of John's; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafés on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are. Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.

About the Author

Jonathan Buckley is a writer and editor from the West Midlands, now living in Brighton. In 2015 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’, and he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His previous novel, Tell, was the joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. One Boat is his thirteenth novel, the second to come out with Fitzcarraldo Editions.