Turkana Boy by Beauchemin, Jean-Francois
Turkana Boy by Beauchemin, Jean-Francois

Turkana Boy

In this contemplative novel-poem, Jean-François Beauchemin invites us to share in the inner world of the grieving...
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Author: Jean-Francois Beauchemin
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Language: English
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Turkana Boy by Beauchemin, Jean-Francois

Turkana Boy

$34.75
Turkana Boy by Beauchemin, Jean-Francois

Turkana Boy

$34.75
Author: Jean-Francois Beauchemin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

In this contemplative novel-poem, Jean-François Beauchemin invites us to share in the inner world of the grieving Mr. Bartolomé, who, following the mysterious disappearance of his young son, wanders and wonders, seeking to transcend his pain by encountering something larger than himself. Continuously occupied by the memory of his lost son, Bartolomé's quest leads him from the city to the countryside and then to the edge of the ocean, where he marvels at the beauty of nature but cannot penetrate its mysteries.

Through reference to the two-million-year-old "Turkana Boy," the fossilized remains of a boy found in 1984 near Lake Turkana, Kenya, Beauchemin addresses processes of memory and the long history of human evolution. Beauchemin's character Bartolomé sees in the lives of the boys--separated by nearly two million years--a kind of twin destiny. Has the passage of millennia changed the intensity of human feeling at the loss of blood relations? "Who knows what they had felt? Had the same emotions, those associated with incommensurable loss, broken their bodies, as they had his? Over and above morphological differences sculpted by the passage of millennia, was there something resembling a permanence of feeling, a sort of eternity for the murmuring of the heart, transmitted through the ages by the bonds of blood?"

Turkana Boy offers a poignant examination of grieving and one man's search for understanding. This surrealist narrative is punctuated with magnificent musings on the world and startling questions about what it means to be alive.

Author: Jean-Francois Beauchemin
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 05/29/2012
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780889226906

About the Author

Jean-François Beauchemin has been called "one of the best-kept secrets" of Quebecois literature. He is the recipient of the 2005 Prix France-Québec / Jean Hamelin for Le jour des corneilles and the 2007 Prix des libraires for La fabrication de l'aube. Most recently, Beauchemin wrote a trilogy of semi-autobiographical books exploring "the tragic beauty of the world," which, like Turkana Boy, explore grief, wonder and the nature of the soul. Le Jour des Corneilles is presently being adapted as an animated film. He lives in Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs, Quebec, and writes works of fiction, autobiography and poetry--none of which has previously been translated.


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