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South Wind unspools the solitary life of Bishop Thomas Heard as he spends a season of the sirocco—literally the south wind—on Nepenthe, a fictional island echoing the Italian paradise of Capri. The warm, brooding breeze reshapes the townspeople’s attitudes and beckons the Bishop into a mosaic of unorthodox moral and sexual debates. Douglas’s narrative weaves the pleasures and perils of hedonism with a sharp psychological lens, presenting a vivid portrait of resort culture, cynicism, and the shifting mores of an insular society.
First publish date: 1917
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Norman Douglas
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