Euphoria
14.99 €
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Euphoria
14.99 €
In 1933, young Englishman Andrew Bankson leads a lonely life on the Sepik River in a tribe of New Guinea, trying to describe and understand the basics of life of people so unlike his own tribesmen of the Western world. He takes his first steps in anthropology, considering himself a failure who is unlikely to make a serious contribution to the new science. One day he meets a couple of his colleagues, Nell and Fen, a married couple, and they roam from one wild tribe to another, gathering information. Unlike Bankson, they have already accomplished quite a bit. Fen is smart, energetic and full of adventurous ideas. His wife Nell - a real star of anthropology, the author of a sensational scientific bestseller. For several months Bankson, Nell and Fen work together, they are in a real research frenzy, which one day will be replaced by a frenzy of love, and they will be bound by a strange relationship, which mixed love, jealousy, competition, ambition, jealousy and adventurism. The only representatives of Western civilization in the sweltering jungle, they try to comprehend an obscure, mysterious culture, unable to understand themselves. The book is based on the story of the famous anthropologist Margaret Mead, but in the novel Lily King real facts are closely woven with fiction. It is both a portrait of a remarkable woman and a subtle, slightly ironic novel about competition, desire, and a love triangle in extreme circumstances. A dramatic, intelligent, and erotic story. Lily King plays with genres with ease: from genuine drama to comedy, from thoughtful reflections on foreign cultures and ways of knowing them to romance that flows into eroticism.
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