Black oxen

Elizabeth Knox

first published 2001 Chatto & Windus, 2001 436 pages

"Black Oxen is the story of Carme Risk's pursuit of her beautiful and not quite human father through two worlds and three changes of identity. In her forties, in the year 2022, Risk has entered narrative therapy. Her memories and her father's journal take her from the Eden of her earliest childhood to dusty, poor Lequama, a Latin American country, where she and her father become involved with the slightly mad young...

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Black oxen edition · 2002 · Picador USA · 436 pages
Black oxen edition · 2001 · Chatto & Windus · 436 pages
Black oxen edition · 2001 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 436 pages

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