Terraferma
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The killing of a mammoth obstructing the tourist routes in the Scottish Highlands, and the death of a Red Brigade terrorist in an attic overlooking the Venetian lagoon. Desperate negotiations with an architect in Iran, and the beating of an aid worker for failing to deliver rain - these are some of the startling scenarios of Jonathan Falla's second collection of stories.
"Falla's harsh, precise and constantly sensual portrayal of a cruel world is partly offset by his evocative descriptions of its extreme climate and landscape, and still more by his sensitive handling of the characters." Sunday Times (London)
"A writer who has a natural ability to capture the essence of an individual in a few brief lines." New Statesman (London)
"Falla is no longer to be described as a promising novelist, but as an accomplished one." The Scotsman (Edinburgh)
Jonathan Falla
Jonathan Falla is an English writer long resident in Scotland, UK. He is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen books from publishers such as Longman, Cambridge University Press, Aurora Metro, and Polygon. These include five novels, a study of Burmese rebels, poetry translations, military memoirs and drama. Born in Jamaica, Falla was educated at Cambridge. He trained as a specialist nurse and for many years he worked for international aid agencies in Java, Burma, Sudan, Nepal and Uganda. He is now Director of the St Andrews University creative writing summer school, and also teaches arts subjects for the Open University. He is the winner of several prizes including a PEN fiction award, the 2007 Creative Scotland Award and a senior Fulbright fellowship at the University of Southern California.
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