Details
ISBN: 9781850773184
Published: October 18, 2018
Publisher: Global Book Sales
Trim: 5.00 x 8.00 Inches
Pages: 128
My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water
Michelle Steinbeck, Jen Calleja
By Michelle Steinbeck
Translated by Jen Calleja
About the Book
A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author
Michelle Steinbeck.
A child attacks Loribeth with an iron while she is sleeping. In retaliation Loribeth throws the iron onto the child from an upstairs window, packs the damaged
body into a suitcase and sets off on her travels. Thus starts Steinbeck’s unusual, poetic novella about a young woman’s transition from childhood to adulthood. In this fantastical novella, Steinbeck depicts her protagonist’s unsettled state of mind in poetic and energetic prose.