Bruce Machart—The Wake of Forgetting [Gallmeister; 2013]

Bruce Machart—The Wake of Forgetting Gallmeister; Paris. 2013. Softcover. 400 pages. Cover with minor imperfections. Shipping costs: Standard mail: €1.70 Registered mail: €3.85 Synopsis [in French]: Texas, 1895. A landowner watches the only woman he has ever loved die while giving birth to their fourth son, Karel. Overwhelmed by grief, the man leads his children into an austere and brutal life. For him, only his racehorses—ridden by Karel—and the wagers he places against his neighbors to acquire ever more land now matter. But the stakes change entirely when a Spanish landowner proposes an unusual bet that puts the futures of the four brothers on the line. Karel then embarks on a decisive race, with a young woman—who already obsesses him—as his rival. A dazzling debut novel, The Wake of Forgetting earned its author comparisons to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy