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The testament of Yves Gundron

A village is transformed by a farmer's invention of the harness in this look at the effect on people of new technology. The setting is a mythical village in present-day Scotland where plowing has only recently been introduced and candles do not yet exist.

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  • "Martyria tou Yv Gkountron"
  • "Yv Gkountron"
  • "Yves Gundron"
  • "Yves Gundron"@en

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  • "Als een antropologe een bezoek brengt aan een dorp op een eiland voor de Schotse kust dat nog nooit met de westerse beschaving in aanraking is geweest, zijn de gevolgen niet te overzien."
  • "A village is transformed by a farmer's invention of the harness in this look at the effect on people of new technology. The setting is a mythical village in present-day Scotland where plowing has only recently been introduced and candles do not yet exist."
  • "A village is transformed by a farmer's invention of the harness in this look at the effect on people of new technology. The setting is a mythical village in present-day Scotland where plowing has only recently been introduced and candles do not yet exist."@en
  • "A wonderfully imaginative and surprising debut novel about the inexorable approach of modernity. "Imagine the time of my grandfather's grandfather, when the darkness was newly separated from the light. Society was only a shadowy image of what it would soon become. This was Mandragora before my invention and all that it set in motion."-from The Testament of Yves Gundron So begins Yves Gundron's account of the strange events to befall Mandragora. It is a desperate, primitive place-plowing was only recently introduced, candles do not exist, and the inhabitants know no number larger than twenty. Nevertheless, there was little conflict before Yves's invention-the harness-irrevocably transformed the Mandragorans' lives. Yves's manuscript, which bears witness to these changes, appears to have been prepared for publication by an academic named Ruth Blum. But what at first seems a historical document proves to be something else entirely. Yves's brother, Mandrik le Chouchou, the town mystic, regales his fellow villagers with exotic tales of his travels to "Indochina." And when Yves recalls the words of a song that is recognizably a blues lyric, we know that either Ruth Blum is up to something or Mandragora is not what it seems. In this playful and adventurous debut, Emily Barton explores the two-edged sword of technology, asking what is lost in our fervent pursuit of modernity."@en

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  • "Satire"
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "The Testament of Yves Gundron"
  • "The testament of Yves Gundron"
  • "The testament of Yves Gundron"@en
  • "Mandragoras : hÄ“ martyria tou Yv Gkountron : mythistorÄ“ma"
  • "The testament of yves gundron"@en
  • "Het testament van Yves Gundron"
  • "Le testament d'Yves Gundron : roman"

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