Sukkwan Island - Collector Totem

by David Vann

224 pages

Published September 24, 2025

About the author

Published in 19 languages, David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 15 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain and, most recently, the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize 2013, and appeared on 70 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, and other magazines and newspapers. A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he is currently a Professor at the University of Warwick in England and Honorary Professor at the University of Franche-Comté in France.

Reviews

[Brigitte Niel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Très beau livre, surtout dans sa première partie où nous sommes dans la tête de Roy. La seconde partie est crue, violente, dérangeante. Les descriptions sont des paysages en Alaska, magnifiques et jamais pesantes, surplombent l'ensemble du récit.

[Kanou · Rating 4 out of 5]

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