Spurvehøg bliver lærling på den berømte troldmændenes skole på øen Roke

'A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean

Constance Debré skriver sig mod sin egen frigørelse

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Bogen er oversat af Nanna Friis og Emma Holten

The Son of Man Spurvehøg bliver lærling på denAfter several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where the man grew up with his own ruthless father. While the mother watches the passing days with apprehension, the son discovers the enchantment of nature, savage and bewitching. As the fathers hold over them intensifies, the return to their previous life and