Of Beasts and Fowls [electronic resource]
Pilar Adon2024
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Summer ends, the season changes, and Coro, an artist frightened off by what her
own paintings may represent, gets in her car and drives for hours in the middle
of the night until she chances upon Betania, an isolated house existing in a
world of its own. It’s an unfamiliar place inhabited exclusively by women
who, strangely, all seem to know her.
Like adherents of an ancient cult, the women of Betania all dress the
same, carry out strange rites and celebrations, and live alongside goats and
innumerable dogs against a landscape dominated by an immense, imposing mountain
that seems to block out the sunlight. Theirs is a hierarchical, closed, and
restless universe where—as the other women tell her and despite her attempts to
escape the area—Coro may finally discover what it means to be part of something.
A ”Hotel California” of the human heart, Pilar Adon’s Of Beasts and Fowl is a
novel about the things that we do without knowing why, but that have an
explanati...
Main title:
Of Beasts and Fowls [electronic resource] / Pilar Adon
Author:
Pilar Adon, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Open Letter, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781960385246
Language:
English
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BRN:
534158
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