The Cave
Tim Krabbé author Sam Garrett translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:14th Jan '02
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The Cave, a bestseller in Holland, is the new novel by the author of the novel and cult film The Vanishing
It takes a journey into the heart of darkness to discover the light - another thrilling novel by the author of The VanishingRespectable geologist Egon Wagter has always found the amoral Axel van de Graaf's charisma difficult to resist. But from their first meeting as adolescents on a field trip to Belgium, when three lives became inextricably linked in the caves of La Roche, he has never yet allowed himself to be drawn into his friend's criminal life. Instead he has kept his independence, preferring to learn about Axel's exploits as a drug baron from the papers. Now his life as a family man is in tatters and the escape route offered by an expedition to South America lacks only $40,000 to become a reality. So here he is, far from home in a South East Asian country where the penalty for running drugs is death, running drugs for Axel, but maybe also on the brink of finally understanding the secret of the cave and the love that might have been.
'Krabbe's carefully constructed narrative has a geometry so precise that the patterns buried under the surface emerge only in the final pages' New York Times 'Full of beautiful coincidences, epiphanies, turning points and roads not taken' Los Angeles Times
ISBN: 9780747556237
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 189g
224 pages
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