The Ventriloquists Tale ~ Pauline Melville The Ventriloquists Tale ~ Pauline Melville
The Ventriloquists Tale ~ Pauline Melville The Ventriloquists Tale ~ Pauline Melville

The Ventriloquist’s Tale ~ Pauline Melville

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THE VENTRILOQUIST'S TALE is told by a beguiling new voice.

Pauline Melville writes with an unusually dispassionate lushness that is both intellectual and sensual. By taking a notably cool look. at an extremely steamy story, she has created an eye-opening fiction. I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years' SALMAN RUSHDIE

'A wonderful début novel...A stunning multi-layered depiction of Amerindian life, and a brilliant metaphor for the meeting of two world.... Melville is a superb storyteller, capable of writing that is both earthy and expansive, sharp and lyrical OBSERVER

A sharply funny, richly fantastical story...An exhilarating novel that combines myths and modern life with a dazzling exuberance' MAIL ON SUNDAY

A remarkable, enthralling first novel...Melville evokes the extraordinary melting pot of races, cultures, religions and superstitions that is modern Guyana, the only English-speaking country in South America' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

'Dazzling... this first novel shows her confidently tunnelling under the ramparts of institutions and myths, to run out chuckling just before the charge went off' INDEPENDENT

'Marvellous, moving and witty... Melville marshals her themes dispassionately, skilfully paralleling events in the past and present and combining passages of lyrical beauty with wonderful comic vignettes'

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