Grenzbezirke

An old man moves from the capital to a remote village in the borderlands, where he intends to spend his final years. What mental impressions remain, he wonders, from a life devoted to contemplation and reading? The longing allure of a dark-haired woman? The family seat in a barren landscape? The agile beauty of a certain racehorse? The colors of translucent stained glass windows? A line from Proust? And so the man begins, in the twilight of his days, to catalog this treasure of his, hardly aware of where his account will lead him and what secrets will come to light. Border Districts is a gesture of farewell. In images of haunting depth, Gerald Murnane tells the story of a passionate reader, a stumbling lover, and a practicing believer - a belief not in the platitudes of religion, but in.