PublishedTransit Lounge, May 2016 |
ISBN9780994395832 |
FormatSoftcover, 304 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.8cm |
Samuel
and Morgan are twin brothers separated by several oceans. Once, when they were
children together, they shared not only a family and a childhood, but a secret
imaginary world that had a language of its own: Nahum. But that was decades
ago: before Morgan became a wanderer whose only contact with his brother was
stories, written in Nahum.
When Morgan unexpectedly passes away in the Netherlands,
the woman he was living with -the mysterious Ana -agrees to accompany his body,
and his final Nahum story, home to Australia.
What
she carries home to Samuel is not just a
manuscript, but a startling revelation.
In
gorgeous and incisive prose, Sulway
conjures a haunting, moving story of the complex relationships and allegiances of
family life, of silence and memory, and
the power of words and the imagination to
transform everything.
'Dreamlike and prophetic and true. Like the
best translators, Sulway pushes language to defy its limitations, to defy our
own.' Kristina Olsson
Read this stunning review by Nike Sulway in The Saturday Paper
