Boxwood
Contributors: Patricia Haugaard (Translator)
Publisher: New Directions
Published: June 27, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780811217514
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: "Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of oranges, typewriters, iron ore, oil, spices), elements of nature both cruel and beautiful, whales, priests, witches, ghosts--sprinkled with various autobiographies-- everything exquisite and crass in Cela's native home, Galicia, Spain"--Publisher's description.
Notes: New Directions Paperbook