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Salt
by Jeremy Page
ISBN: 9780670038688
Viking Books
$24.95 Hardcover
July 2007
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What's It About? |
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Years after being fathered by a World War II German soldier who abandoned her mother, Lil emerges from a strange and tragic childhood in the Norfolk marshes to give birth to her own son, Pip, who struggles within his isolated and mute world to make sense of their family history and his growing feelings for a neighbor.
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Who's Talking About It? |
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“This remarkable first novel by British script editor Page elevates a tragic family history to the level of myth…. Page has reinvented the fairy tale with this disturbing and magical saga.”--Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Page brilliantly evokes [Norfolk's] bleakness, the harsh round of the season. With Salt, the regional novel has recruited a powerful new voice.”--Rachel Hore, The Independent
“Brilliant description of the changing, yet unchanging, Norfolk landscape… so singularly drawn it appears almost a separate country”--Guardian
“Seasoned with local dialect… the brusqueness of the people is most authentic, providing a neat counterpart to Page's loquacious lyricism”--Observer
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Who's Going to Read It? |
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Armchair travelers can go back in time and learn what life in rural England was really like after World War II. Fans of John Banville and Marilynne Robinson will also feel right at home with Salt.
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Why Should I Read It? |
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“Salt is a family saga that explores the relationship between people and the landscape in which they live. Atmospheric and lyrical, Jeremy Page's debut novel is revelatory in its use of language…. Salt signals the introduction of a significant writer.”
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