Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Selva Almada’s ‘Not a River’ was probably good before the dialogue got cut up with a weedwhacker. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024.
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Not a River: Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their past. But they are outsiders, and this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human and otherwise. The forest presses close, and violence seems inevitable, but can another tragedy be avoided?
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Selva Almada’s ‘Not a River’ was probably good before the dialogue got cut up with a weedwhacker. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024.
Can’t rate/10
Not a River: Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their past. But they are outsiders, and this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human and otherwise. The forest presses close, and violence seems inevitable, but can another tragedy be avoided?
Other Booktubers mentioned: @BobTheBookerer
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/61199102
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/TheDiscoKing
Instagram: instagram.com/funkydaddydisco
Thanks for watching, and remember: Booktuber trivia night at the end of the week!
#internationalbookerprize #bookerprize #booktube #bookreview
