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Translated from Romanian by Alistair\u00a0Ian Blyth<\/p>\n
ISBN: 978-1-912545-377<\/p>\n
‘Jonah and his Daughter’ is the tale of the tale of the reluctant, recalcitrant prophet Jonah, passed down from mother to daughter over the course of thousands of years, from the eighth century B.C. to the present day, in a sweeping narrative that range from the ancient port of Jaffa in the eastern Mediterranean to the modern-day cities of Prague, Munich, London, Bucharest.<\/strong><\/p>\n The first storyteller is Jonah\u2019s daughter herself, and the last\u00a0is the mother of twins in our own time. A colourful, variegated tapestry of arborescent tales within tales, which interweaves myth, legends, family histories,and psychologies,\u00a0the novel extrapolates a Biblical story to meditate on the nature of narrative and the narratorial voice, on permanence and change, on the unfolding of self through storytelling, on the irreducible mystery of the narrated self.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pre-order a copy here Translated from Romanian by Alistair\u00a0Ian Blyth ISBN: 978-1-912545-377 ‘Jonah and his Daughter’ is the tale of the tale of the reluctant, recalcitrant prophet Jonah, passed down from mother to daughter over the course of thousands of years, from the eighth century B.C. to the present day, in a sweeping narrative that …<\/p>\n