Salt picnic / Patric Evans.

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Evans, Patrick, 1944- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 351 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9781776561698
1776561694

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Summary: All the time on the island there had been something she was looking for. She knew she had to keep this in mind, and that she’d know what it was when she found it. Whatever it proved to be. It’s 1956 and Iola arrives on the island of Ibiza, on the fringes of Franco’s Spain, with little more than a Spanish phrasebook. Soon she meets a fascinating American photographer who falls in and out of focus: is he really a photographer, and who exactly is the German doctor he keeps asking her about? The mysterious doctor, when he appears, takes Iola for a picnic on a salt island, where she learns how easily the world can be obscured. Salt Picnic is a beguiling novel about mistranslation, fantasy and the historical echoes of ideology.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	Pātea LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	EVAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		i2176019
New Zealand fiction	Stratford Fiction	Fiction	EVA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available (Available)		A00801224

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All the time on the island there had been something she was looking for. She knew she had to keep this in mind, and that she’d know what it was when she found it. Whatever it proved to be. It’s 1956 and Iola arrives on the island of Ibiza, on the fringes of Franco’s Spain, with little more than a Spanish phrasebook. Soon she meets a fascinating American photographer who falls in and out of focus: is he really a photographer, and who exactly is the German doctor he keeps asking her about? The mysterious doctor, when he appears, takes Iola for a picnic on a salt island, where she learns how easily the world can be obscured. Salt Picnic is a beguiling novel about mistranslation, fantasy and the historical echoes of ideology.

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