If you cross the river : a novel

Damas, Geneviève (author.). Gladding, Jody, 1955- (translator.).

Record details

ISBN: 1571311203
ISBN: 9781571311207
ISBN: 1571311203 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9781571311207 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: 133 pages ; 22 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.:

"Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, François Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family farm's pigs; by night he manages the household chores. Still, Franois can't help but wonder about the wider world and his place in it. Who was his mother, who he remembers not at all? And why is the opposite shore of the river, where his beloved older sister disappeared many years ago, forbidden to him? Propelled by curiosity, François turns to the eclectic denizens of his town to help make sense of these mysteries. He begins reading lessons with a melancholy curé, falls into an affair with a village woman, and affectionately confides his secrets to a velvet-eared piglet named Hyménée. As François questions both his origins and the course of his life, he begins to unlock the true story of his mother and sister, and comes to reinvent himself."--Provided by publisher.