by David Vann · Editions Gallmeister · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782351780305
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Sukkwan Island is a novel written by David Vann, published in 2010 by Editions Gallmeister. The story takes place on a wild island in southern Alaska, where a father takes his thirteen-year-old son to live in an isolated cabin for a year, seeking a new beginning after a series of personal failures. However, the harshness of life on the island and the father's own shortcomings transform the experience into a nightmare, culminating in a dramatic and unpredictable ending.
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!.
