Running with Pirates
$32.00
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2024
Summary
A warm and engaging memoir about freedom, adventure, and fathers and sons, set against the sumptuous backdrop of Corfu.
At the age of eighteen, Kari Gislason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering encounter with his father in Iceland. Looking for adventure, he decides to stay after meeting ‘the Pirate’, a mysterious Greek stranger who offers him work - only to find himself eventually fleeing the island, leaving behind a debt he promises to repay.
Three decades la…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702268700 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0702268704 |
| Author: | Kári Gíslason |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 152mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
‘A unique and captivating contemplation of sons and fathers, and of boys in the act of becoming men.’ - Nick Earls
‘Heartbreaking, joyful, tender. The full catastrophe: Greece and life, in all its pain and glory.’ - Susan Johnson
About The Author
Kári Gíslason
Kari Gislason is a writer and academic who teaches creative writing and literary studies at QUT. He is the author of The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), which told the story of return journeys he’s made to his birthplace, and the novels The Ash Burner (UQP, 2015) and The Sorrow Stone (UQP, 2022). He is also the co-author, with Richard Fidler, of Saga Land (HarperCollins, 2017), and has written works of travel journalism, essays, reviews and radio scripts.
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