The Joyful Song of the Partridge

A potent whirl of history, mythology, and grapevine chatter, The Joyful Cry of the Partridge absorbs readers into its many hiding places and along the wandering paths of its principal characters, ...

A potent whirl of history, mythology, and grapevine chatter, The Joyful Cry of the Partridge absorbs readers into its many hiding places and along the wandering paths of its principal characters, whose stark words will stay with you long after the journey is done. No one knows where Maria des Dores came from. Did she ride in on the armoured spines of crocodiles, was she carried many miles in the jaws of fish? The only clear fact is that she is here, sitting naked in the river bordering a town where nothing ever happens. The townspeople murmur restlessly that she is possessed by perverse impuls