by David Vann · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070445523
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«Sukkwan Island» is the novel by David Vann, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback format (231 pages, in French).
Jim, a man marked by failures, takes his thirteen-year-old son to spend a year in an isolated cabin on a wild island in Alaska, hoping to reconnect with him. The hostility of the environment and the father's emotional instability turn their coexistence into a psychological nightmare of growing tension.
Originally written in English, it was awarded the Prix Médicis étranger in 2010; the French translation is by Laura Derajinski.
For readers of contemporary fiction and psychological thriller seeking a dark, intimate atmosphere of progressive tension.
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!.
