Not a River

Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their post. But they are outsiders, and this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human and otherwise. The forest presses close, and violence seems inevitable but can another tragedy be avoided?

A singular vision of rural Argentina, Not A River completes Selva Almada’s trilogy of three stand-alone novels exploring masculinity, poverty and the raw power of the elements.

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