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Fish Trapped Inside the Wind, A
Author(s): Christien Gholson (Author)
- Publisher: Parthian Books
- Publication Date: 25 May 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 274 pages
- ISBN-10: 1906998906
- ISBN-13: 9781906998905
Book Description
In a small town on the Franco-Belgian border, on the morning of the festival of St. Woelfred, the population wake up to find that there are dead fish scattered everywhere, seemingly blown in by the wind. The lives of six people who live in the town are about to be changed forever.
Editorial Reviews
Review
I fell in love with this novel the moment I read it. The language and imagery were so fresh and vivid, I thought Christien must be a poet (and turned out to be right.) The book has a political sharpness, wit, and worldliness; it has a compelling plot, a vast number of deftly differentiated voices; and it has characters you will never forget. –Karen Joy Fowler (author of the NYT Bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club)
What is at first unusual may be followed with legend.
A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind; is a unique story of a small Belgian town who are pelted with dead fish by the wind. As the town deals with its dead fish problem, the people ponder what it means. Blending in folk legend of small European towns and the effect it will have on their lives, A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind; is a moving and thoughtful read, very much recommended. –Reviewer’s Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review, August 2011Like the most finely cadenced, beautifully fanciful works of surrealism, this novel beckons with its subtle nuances before it leaps into a dazzling mastery that will ensnare even the casual reader. –Julie Trevelyan,
Booklist ReviewAbout the Author
Christien Gholson grew up in a navy family, living in Belgium, Italy, and numerous places across the North American continent. He has been a union organizer, janitor, farmhand, bookseller, teacher, cartoonist, itinerent poet-musician and editor. He attended Naropa University and the creative writing program at University of California at Davis, and has also authored prose poetry collection On the Side of the Crow (Parthian, 2011).
