by David Vann · ALFABIA EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493794323
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Sukkwan Island is a novel by American author David Vann, published in 2010. The story takes place on a wild island in southern Alaska, where Jim decides to strengthen his relationship with his son Roy. Isolated in a cabin, father and son face difficult survival conditions and growing emotional tension, transforming their attempt to reconnect into a claustrophobic and suffocating experience. The novel explores themes of isolation, miscommunication, and complex family dynamics in a hostile natural environment.
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!.
