Flotsam

Title: Sea Drift

Writer: Jan Brokken

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789045015682

Condition: Good

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Condition descriptions:
- As New: Hardly any signs of use, almost as new.
- Good: May show minor signs of use, such as some discoloration or a name on the endpapers, but generally no underlining or notes in the text.
- Fair: Book in fair condition. May show signs of use, such as discoloration, reading creases in spine, underlinings, notes, light soiling at edges, dog-ears, or a crooked spine.
- New: Book is new.

Description:
In what really happened, Jan Brokken looks for the improbable, in the real the unbelievable, in the ordinary the exceptional. This results in stories that are close to reality but are hardly predictable. They are set in metropolises or on small islands, at sea or in the desert, in the glowing Umbria or the barren highlands of Guatemala. Yet the sets often acquire something astonishing through the people Jan Brokken meets.
In Zeedrift the reader meets an ancient Aruban musician whose entire life revolves around the jealous Daisy, an Italian woman who falls in love with a voice, an Egyptian father who seizes the opportunity of a stranger to accuse his sons of cowardice, a ship's captain who breathes new life into old myths, the wife of a battle-weary coffee farmer who takes her fate into her own hands, celebrities – Gabriel García Márquez, Tip Marugg, Yasser Arafat – who show a surprising side of themselves, and a pauper who draws five minutes of hope from horse racing and, for once, doesn't bet on the wrong horse. The collection ends with a ship that feeds a boy's dreams. Everything comes from desire, Jan Brokken shows in these deeply human stories, or from the denials of the impossible.