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Title:
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THE DONKEY'S EARS
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By: |
Douglas Dunn |
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Paperback |

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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571204260 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571204267 |
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Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
8 May, 2000 |
Edition: |
Main |
Pages: |
160 |
Description: |
A wonderfully sustained narrative poem, full of the resonances and repercussions attendant on the end of an era, The Donkey's Ears depicts life aboard a Russian flagship just before the battle of Tsushima, 1905. |
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A wonderfully sustained narrative poem, full of the resonances and repercussions attendant on the end of an era, The Donkey's Ears depicts life aboard a Russian flagship just before the battle of Tsushima, 1905. It purports to be written by E.S. Politovsky, a ship's engineer addressing his wife in letters back home. Known as 'The Trafalgar of the East', Tsushima (which, translated from the Japanese, means 'The Donkey's Ears' - a description of the twin peaks of the islands) was the biggest naval gun-battle in history. The action of the poem takes place before the battle. A vividly realized claustrophobia prevails. Life below and on deck is brilliantly detailed as is the sense of incipient doom; one man's voice (domestic, particular, yearning for wife and home comforts) pitched against the inexorable onslaught of events. |
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UK |
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Faber & Faber |
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