The Child and the River
By Henri Bosco
Translated by Joyce Zonana
By Henri Bosco
Translated by Joyce Zonana
By Henri Bosco
Translated by Joyce Zonana
By Henri Bosco
Translated by Joyce Zonana
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$14.00
Jul 11, 2023 | ISBN 9781681377421
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Jun 27, 2023 | ISBN 9781681377438
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Praise
“[Full] of small beauties, like a multifaceted gem….a gentle, meta-fairy-tale about the imagination’s capacity to bring about the very realities it craves, whether we need friendship, adventure, salvation or love…. Zonana retains the conversational, diaristic qualities of Bosco’s prose along with the intensity of its noticings, clearly marking the subtle shifts when the external world of nature becomes the internal world of imagination.” — Marco Roth, The New York Times
“[The Child and the River is] an idyllic adventure in which the boys rapture over the flora and fauna while living lives of simplicity and ease…which ultimately describes a boy’s rite-of-passage into young adulthood, responsibility, and friendship.” —Tom Bowden, The Book Beat
“[Bosco] seems to have sought…to sweep the reader back into the vivid intensities of childhood, summoning the way that time stretches out so that a lovely morning becomes a golden age; evoking the ways that children can scare themselves on purpose, for fun; conjuring the suggestive powers of shadows and footprints and moonlight….In France, “L’enfant et la rivière” is considered as much a book for adults as it is for children. The same, one hopes, will hold true in the English-speaking world.” —Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal
“The Child and the River brims with lovely nostalgic pleasures….The joy of The Child and the River comes from Pascalet’s gentle, limpid observations of his time on the river, which are generally free of intrusive, muddy ‘adult’ meditations.” —Edwin Turner, Biblioklept
“A small gem from Bosco, this book has been described as a French Huckleberry Finn even though a comparison with Thoreau’s Walden might make more sense. . . . Bosco’s story carries readers into an innocent childhood world as easily as the current carries the boys on their adventures.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The poetry of this ecological tale lies in the balance between the power of the forbidden and a quest for the lost childhood paradise that Bosco sought all his life, in his writing and in his dreams.” —Le Temps
“Henri Bosco is the greatest dreamer of our time.” —Gaston Bachelard
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