by Pauline Melville · Trafalgar Square · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747535140
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«The Ventriloquist's Tale» is the literary fiction novel by Pauline Melville, published by Trafalgar Square in paperback (368 pages, in English).
A ventriloquist narrator maintains that magic serves to fulfil and intensify desire, and from that voice tells stories of love and catastrophe. A British writer discovers in Guyana a family history marked by racial mixing, exclusion and love's rebellion against culture.
First novel by Pauline Melville, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1997 and shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction and magical realism interested in stories set in South America and in themes of identity, race and desire.
