The Grassling
Autor: | Burnett, Elizabeth-Jane |
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EAN: | 9780141989624 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 208 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 23.04.2020 |
Schlagworte: | Biography / Autobiography |
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'Deliciously tactile and meditative . . . to read this is to luxuriate in the land, and to connect to it and oneself' Bernardine Evaristo What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing.Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. The Grassling is a book about roots: what it means to belong when the soil beneath our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that nurtured us are slipping away.