10% off all books and free delivery over £50
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

The Trace

View All Editions (2)

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

The Trace Synopsis

The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered.  Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of nineteenth-century American writer Ambrose Bierce  (who disappeared during the Mexican Revolution) and  try to piece together their lives after a devastating incident involving their adolescent son. With tenderness and precision, Gander explores the intimacies of their relationship as they travel through Mexican towns, through picturesque canyons and desertcapes, on a journey through the the heart of the Mexican landscape. Taking a shortcut  through the brutally hot desert home, their car overheats miles from nowhere, the novel spinning out of control, with devastating consequences. . . . Poet Forrest Gander's first novel As a Friend was acclaimed as "profound and relentlessly beautiful (Rikki Ducornet). With The Trace, Gander has accomplished another brilliant work, containing unforgettable  poetic descriptions of Mexico and a story both violent and tender.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780811223713
Publication date:
Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 246 pages
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction