by David Vann · Bompiani · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845266546
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«L'isola di Sukkvan» is the novel by David Vann, published by Bompiani in paperback (194 pages, in Italian).
Jim takes his thirteen-year-old son Roy to a remote island in southern Alaska to spend a year in a cabin and recover a relationship neglected by his life of excess. The hunting and fishing life in extreme conditions and the father's insecurity turn the stay into a growing nightmare for the boy.
Work originally published in English as Sukkwan Island (2008), winner of the Prix Médicis étranger. Part of the Narrativa straniera collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of survival and family relationships.
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
