Mother Pleiades: A Story from the Dawn of Time

by William Heinesen

Book Overview

Heinesen's novels always contain the portrait of what might be termed a "good" woman: Simona in Windswept Dawn, Eliana in The Lost Musicians, Liva in The Black Cauldron. Here, however, the "good" woman, Antonia, is raised to mythological status as the representative of motherhood, the bearer of life as has existed from the dawn of time. This portrayal is placed against the description of a limited circle of ordinary and unprepossessing figures in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907650075
• ISBN13: 9781907650079
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Dedalus
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.7"