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Passages

✍ Scribed by Ann Quin

Publisher
And Other Stories Publishing
Year
2021
Tongue
English
Weight
11 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1911508938

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✦ Synopsis

A book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quin's newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word 'passage' - of music, of time, and of life itself. A woman, accompanied by her lover, searches for her lost brother, who may have been a revolutionary, and who may have been tortured, imprisoned or killed. Roving through a Mediterranean landscape, they live out their entangled existences, reluctant to give up, afraid of the outcome.

Reflecting the schizophrenia of its characters, the novel splits into alternating passages, switching between the sister and her lover's perspective. The lover's passages are also fractured, taking the form of a diary with notes alongside the entries. An intricate system of repetition and relation builds across the passages. 'All seasons passed through before the pattern formed, collected in parts.'

Erotic and tense, in Quin's compelling third novel the author allowed her writing freer rein than before,...

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