Southeaster [Paperback]

Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.

Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for.

Echoes of John Berger sound throughout the evocative prose of this great Argentinian writer. A twentieth-century classic,Southeasteris a central work in Haroldo Conti’s oeuvre.

Haroldo Conti was one of the great Argentinian writers. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Haroldo is a river, a delta with many streams that embrace the islands as they pass. His literature is directed at the solitude of others, and it brings a warm embrace, in the same way the river does. Eduardo Galeano

The economy of his writing, impregnated with poetry and tenderness, is remarkable . . . Dont be fooled by the storys initial, quasi-bucolic, calm. A dramatic crescendo leads to the final roar. Mar?a Esther de Miguel,La Naci?n

Haroldo Conti was one of Argentina's finest prose writers at the time he was 'disappeared' by the military junta in the mid 1970s. He was fifty-one years old. This first publication of his work in English introduces us not only to one of South America's finest twentieth-century writers but to a world view, a landscape and a unique literary vision that is essential to our time. John Burnside

What a surprise and a treat. I was swept up in the great murky flow of it. Conti is a writer for whom place is character, not backdrop, and what a place, what a character. Hes a revelation. Tim Winton

Readers in English can at last immerse themselves in the subtle, beautifully wrought journey of the voyager . . .Southeasteris one of the most original contributions to what Conti hilÓE