Awake Format:Paperback the recovery and the enjoyment

the recovery and the enjoyment of tongues

Otherworldly

The over-riding theme is the sense of melancholy of those who have been alienated from their homeland

Silva’s poetry is like nothing else you’ve read

seemingly casually negligent

Awake Format:Paperback the recovery and the enjoymentHarald Voetmanns eye opening English debut, Awake, is the first book of his erudite and grotesque trilogy about humankinds inhuman will to conquer nature. In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Wheezing, imperious, and prone to nosebleeds, Pliny doesnt believe in spending his evenings in repose. No to be awake is to be alive.