The Friend of the Desert
A Novel
$29.76
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2019
Summary
Existential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d’Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolano, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man’s repeated forays into the desert, and the ultimate silence it contains.“Thanks to the back cover of a book I knew that there lived in Brno a man who had dedicated a good portion of his life to traveling through many of the world’s deserts.” So begins Pavel’s story, as a series of mysterious circumstances lead him to change the course of his life. On…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781946764492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1946764493 |
| Author: | David Shook, Pablo D'Ors |
| Publisher: | Parallax Press |
| Imprint: | Parallax Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 127mm |
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“A sublime performance. At the outset The Friend of the Desert occupies the beguiling territory of Robert Walser, Jane Bowles, or Georges Perec, but soon develops an allegorical intensity all its own; as it reaches its remarkable climax, each gesture seems to stand absolutely for itself, and also for the reader’s unnameable desires.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn
About The Author
David Shook
Pablo d’Ors is a Spanish priest and writer. He was born in Madrid in 1963 and educated in New York, Vienna, Prague, and Rome. He was ordained in 1991 and he received a doctorate in theology in 1996. In 2014, he founded the Amigos del Desierto foundation with the aim of promoting the practice of meditation. In the same year, Pope Francis made him a consultant of the Pontifical Council for Culture. d’Ors debuted as a writer in 2000 with El estreno, a critically acclaimed collection of short stories. His essay Biografia del silencio was a publishing phenomenon in Spain, selling 130,000 copies in just a few years, and was published in English in 2018. Pablo d’Ors has gone on to publish almost a dozen fiction and nonfiction titles, which have been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and other languages. This is his first English fiction translation.
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