The Swan Whisperer: An Inaugural Lecture

by Marlene van Niekerk

This playful, genre-bending cahier tells the story of pale, anxious creative writing student Kasper Olwagen and his strange encounter with the phenomenon of translation in the person of the Swan Whisperer. Through brilliantly imagined letters and recordings, van Niekerk recounts Olwagen's discovery of a vagrant who, without uttering any even remotely intelligible words, summons swans from Amsterdam's canals. Through the story of Olwagen's experience,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909631108
• ISBN13: 9781909631106
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Sylph Editions
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 0.5" x 9.5"