Running with Pirates

On Freedom, Adventure and Fathers and Sons

Kári Gíslason

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Queensland Univ. Press
30 July 2024

Memoirs; Travel writing; Biography - Australian

A warm and engaging memoir about freedom, adventure, and fathers and sons, set against the sumptuous backdrop of Corfu.

At the age of eighteen, Kari Gislason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering encounter with his father in Iceland. Looking for adventure, he decides to stay after meeting 'the Pirate', a mysterious Greek stranger who offers him work - only to find himself eventually fleeing the island, leaving behind a debt he promises to repay.

Three decades later, as a father of two teenage sons, he returns to Corfu with his family. As he revisits his memories of the island, he begins to understand that this place has shaped the adult he has become, and that the inevitable letting go of his own children lies ahead.

Full of the colour and vitality of the Greek islands, Running with Pirates traverses the joys and challenges of parenthood, the fearlessness of youth, the debts of our past, and the stories we tell ourselves and our children.

By: Kári Gíslason
Imprint: Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 297g
ISBN: 9780702268700
ISBN 10: 0702268704
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kari Gislason is a writer and academic who teaches creative writing and literary studies at QUT. He is the author of The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), which told the story of return journeys he's made to his birthplace, and the novels The Ash Burner (UQP, 2015) and The Sorrow Stone (UQP, 2022). He is also the co-author, with Richard Fidler, of Saga Land (HarperCollins, 2017), which won the Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2018.

Reviews for Running with Pirates: On Freedom, Adventure and Fathers and Sons

'A unique and captivating contemplation of sons and fathers, and of boys in the act of becoming men.' - Nick Earls 'Heartbreaking, joyful, tender. The full catastrophe: Greece and life, in all its pain and glory.' - Susan Johnson