The novel "Drinking the Wind" combines elements of different genres. It is simultaneously a family drama, a western, and noir. Like in an avant-garde film, characters flash before us: the despotic father and the fanatically religious mother; the tyrant and...
paranoid city leader Joyce; his henchmen – the dwarf Snake and the giant Double, as well as whalers, World War I veterans, pirates, poachers, and girls of rather unacceptable behavior. But above all, it is a parable about all-conquering love, connecting three brothers and a sister: the rebellious and sensual Mabel, the literature-obsessed Mark, the one who understands the language of trees and animals, Mathieu, and the youngest Luke, who imagines himself as Jim Hawkins from Stevenson’s "Treasure Island".
The novel "Drinking the Wind" combines elements of different genres. It is simultaneously a family drama, a western, and noir. Like in an avant-garde film, characters flash before us: the despotic father and the fanatically religious mother; the tyrant and paranoid city leader Joyce; his henchmen – the dwarf Snake and the giant Double, as well as whalers, World War I veterans, pirates, poachers, and girls of rather unacceptable behavior. But above all, it is a parable about all-conquering love, connecting three brothers and a sister: the rebellious and sensual Mabel, the literature-obsessed Mark, the one who understands the language of trees and animals, Mathieu, and the youngest Luke, who imagines himself as Jim Hawkins from Stevenson’s "Treasure Island".