by T. Coraghessan Boyle · Rowohlt Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499125805
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«Wassermusik» is the novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, published by Rowohlt Verlag in paperback (560 pages, in German).
The novel follows Scottish explorer Mungo Park on his two expeditions through West Africa in search of the River Niger, accompanied by a former slave turned servant. In parallel, it interweaves the story of Ned Rise, a London drunkard and swindler, and that of Ailie Anderson, the woman waiting for Park in Scotland.
Original title: «Water Music». German translation by Werner Richter. Pocket edition from the rororo collection (no. 12580).
Recommended for readers of historical and adventure fiction interested in contemporary American literature and African expeditions.
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published thirty one novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
