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Books : Fiction : Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards : Authors A-Z : K : Knox, Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Knox's fifth book, her first to be published in the UK, plays out its huge themes in a small Burgundian village at the time of Napoleon. A novel of forbidden love, wine and immortality, it yields up its secrets--beautiful, tragic and horrifying--one by one, so they're as unexpected as the angel Sobran Jodeau, the young vintner, encounters in his vineyard one night in 1808. Xas is breathtakingly beautiful, has huge expressive white wings, leather trousers and smells softly of snow. He is a keen gardener, and also profoundly curious about mortals, how they feel, how they live, how they make their choices. They talk, and Xas persuades Jodeau to meet him--same time, same place--every year.Jodeau marries, fathers children, and continues--bar a couple of years when he's off fighting, whoring and trying to keep his best friend alive on the Russian front--to meet with Xas. Their friendship deepens. Jodeau's wine improves, and the joys and troubles of village life wash around him. But this strange relationship between man and angel is inherently unstable, and following the death of Jodeau's beloved younger daughter, it veers off in a direction neither had anticipated. And then Xas tells Jodeau something that drives the vintner almost beyond madness. --Lisa Gee
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Elizabeth Knox's fifth book, her first to be published in the UK, plays out its huge themes in a small Burgundian village at the time of Napoleon. A novel of forbidden love, wine and immortality, it yields up its secrets--beautiful, tragic and horrifying--one by one, so they're as unexpected as the angel Sobran Jodeau, the young vintner, encounters in his vineyard one night in 1808. Xas is breathtakingly beautiful, has huge expressive white wings, leather trousers and smells softly of snow. He is a keen gardener, and also profoundly curious about mortals, how they feel, how they live, how they make their choices. They talk, and Xas persuades Jodeau to meet him--same time, same place--every year.Jodeau marries, fathers children, and continues--bar a couple of years when he's off fighting, whoring and trying to keep his best friend alive on the Russian front--to meet with Xas. Their friendship deepens. Jodeau's wine improves, and the joys and troubles of village life wash around him. But this strange relationship between man and angel is inherently unstable, and following the death of Jodeau's beloved younger daughter, it veers off in a direction neither had anticipated. And then Xas tells Jodeau something that drives the vintner almost beyond madness. --Lisa Gee
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Part fantasy, part mock-biography, part Latin American magic-realism, Elizabeth Knox's Black Oxen sweeps its characters and its audience up in an unsettling and enthralling journey through time and place. Carme Risk and her "not-quite-human" father contain and connect the action, becoming anchors through 50 years, three countries and numerous lives. Most of the people encountered are from Lequama, a Latin American country that had an inspirational revolution in the 1980s; the young, attractive leaders continue to live life on the edge, through love affairs and government posts, until the 2020s. Carme is in narrative therapy in California in 2022, relating in her own words her experiences in Lequama, about her step-mother, her half-sister, her disappearing father and her friends, who were all touched by the revolution. The breadth of years enables Knox to portray people and events through Carme's adolescent and mature eyes, reporting and reinterpreting violence, confusion, emotion and loss. The list of characters from each of the three locales before the novel has begun gives a hint of the magnitude of Knox's work. While Knox doesn't always engage fully with her characterisation and therefore with the reader, the story and characters are still disturbing and exhilarating enough to intrigue you and keep you reading. --Olivia Dickinson
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Part fantasy, part mock-biography, part Latin American magic-realism, Elizabeth Knox's Black Oxen sweeps its characters and its audience up in an unsettling and enthralling journey through time and place. Carme Risk and her "not-quite-human" father contain and connect the action, becoming anchors through 50 years, three countries and numerous lives. Most of the people encountered are from Lequama, a Latin American country that had an inspirational revolution in the 1980s; the young, attractive leaders continue to live life on the edge, through love affairs and government posts, until the 2020s. Carme is in narrative therapy in California in 2022, relating in her own words her experiences in Lequama, about her step-mother, her half-sister, her disappearing father and her friends, who were all touched by the revolution. The breadth of years enables Knox to portray people and events through Carme's adolescent and mature eyes, reporting and reinterpreting violence, confusion, emotion and loss. The list of characters from each of the three locales before the novel has begun gives a hint of the magnitude of Knox's work. While Knox doesn't always engage fully with her characterisation and therefore with the reader, the story and characters are still disturbing and exhilarating enough to intrigue you and keep you reading. --Olivia Dickinson
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Elizabeth Knox's fifth book, her first to be published in the UK, plays out its huge themes in a small Burgundian village at the time of Napoleon. A novel of forbidden love, wine and immortality, it yields up its secrets--beautiful, tragic and horrifying--one by one, so they're as unexpected as the angel Sobran Jodeau, the young vintner, encounters in his vineyard one night in 1808. Xas is breathtakingly beautiful, has huge expressive white wings, leather trousers and smells softly of snow. He is a keen gardener, and also profoundly curious about mortals, how they feel, how they live, how they make their choices. They talk, and Xas persuades Jodeau to meet him--same time, same place--every year.Jodeau marries, fathers children, and continues--bar a couple of years when he's off fighting, whoring and trying to keep his best friend alive on the Russian front--to meet with Xas. Their friendship deepens. Jodeau's wine improves, and the joys and troubles of village life wash around him. But this strange relationship between man and angel is inherently unstable, and following the death of Jodeau's beloved younger daughter, it veers off in a direction neither had anticipated. And then Xas tells Jodeau something that drives the vintner almost beyond madness. --Lisa Gee
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