The Last of the Vostyachs
Author: Marani, Diego
ISBN: 9781922079688
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 24 Apr 2013
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
He felt a shiver run down his spine when he heard the lateral fricative with labiovelar overlayring out loud and clear in the chill air...It set forgotten follicles stirring in the soft part of hisbrain, disturbing liquids that had lain motionless for centuries, arousing sensations not madefor men of the modern world.
Ivan grew up in a gulag and held his dying father in his arms. Since then he has not uttered aword. He has lived in the wild, kept company only by the wolves and his reindeer-skin drum. Heis the last of an ancient Siberian shamanic tribe, the Vostyachs, and the only person left on earthto know their language.
But when the innocent wild man Ivan is found in the forests by the lively linguist Olga, hisexistence proves to be a triumphant discovery for some, a grave inconvenience for others. Andthe reader is transported into the heart of the wildest imagination.
ISBN: 9781922079688
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 24 Apr 2013
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
He felt a shiver run down his spine when he heard the lateral fricative with labiovelar overlayring out loud and clear in the chill air...It set forgotten follicles stirring in the soft part of hisbrain, disturbing liquids that had lain motionless for centuries, arousing sensations not madefor men of the modern world.
Ivan grew up in a gulag and held his dying father in his arms. Since then he has not uttered aword. He has lived in the wild, kept company only by the wolves and his reindeer-skin drum. Heis the last of an ancient Siberian shamanic tribe, the Vostyachs, and the only person left on earthto know their language.
But when the innocent wild man Ivan is found in the forests by the lively linguist Olga, hisexistence proves to be a triumphant discovery for some, a grave inconvenience for others. Andthe reader is transported into the heart of the wildest imagination.
