商品簡介
In this nested novella, a student becomes intrigued by a mysterious friend whose intimate relationship with the history of the mill town where he grew up informs his politics and enigmatic writing. In Owen Toews? second book Island Falls, tender storytelling surrounds an austere allegorical tale embedded in the disastrous story arcs of capitalism and colonialism. With curiosity that often breaches the privacy boundaries of friendship, the narrator's warm and comedic accounts repeatedly shift to a narrative space where the harsh conditions, operations, and confines of the residents of the mill town are explored in clinical detail. Across this split narrative, universal questions emerge about the work of liberation within a fraught and inequitable order. Island Falls sketches an inquiry into responsibility and reflection that is also a map?repeated infinitely within capitalist geographies and personal histories?of occupation, exploitation, and decline.
