For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain: Winner of the Scottish National First Book Awards 2023
Autor Victoria MacKenzieen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 ian 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526647887
ISBN-10: 1526647885
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526647885
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A beautiful, exhilarating and wise novel about the hidden lives of two extraordinary women, which will delight fans of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (TCM: 400,000), Hannah Kent's Burial Rites (TCM 90,000) and Lauren Groff's New York Times-bestselling Matrix
Notă biografică
Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and poet. She is the winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award and the inaugural Emerging Writer Award from Moniack Mhor. She was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, as well as being awarded prestigious writing residencies in Scotland, Finland and Australia. She teaches creative writing for the Open College of the Arts. She lives in Scotland.victoriamackenzie.net@forthygreatpain
Recenzii
Electrifying . This slim novel is a pocket epic; you will read it in no time but be thinking about it for ages after ... You feel in every sentence the weight of history pressing down on and confining these women
This slim but powerful novel follows both medieval figures through their lives to the point of the fateful meeting
A tiny marvel, tenderly illuminating the inner lives of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
It is an extraordinary feat of historical ventriloquism; the women's inner lives, their religiosity, their sense of place in the world is miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done
Transfixing ... A vibrant portrait of female courage
I adored Victoria Mackenzie's sparse and lyrical debut ... It's intimate, moving and a wonderful snapshot of two extraordinary women's lives
A novel like this requires exquisite balance, not to tip the hand towards one or other of the paired yet opposing characters. This achieves that admirably. It would also be a clever choice for the National Theatre of Scotland to adapt
Lightly done but intensely felt, it's mind-expanding stuff
I've already finished Victoria Mackenzie's limpid novella . in which she imagines the meeting between Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, two great, but wildly different, English mystics
A beautiful book. I loved it. Margery and Julian are both so alive. The invisible balancing and weighing MacKenzie has done across the whole to bring them dialogue with each other and to bring the reader into emotional and spiritual connectedness with them is just so brilliant. And it's funny. It warmed my heart
Superlative ... Striking, elegant.. a novel like this requires exquisite balance ... this achieves this admirably
A startling read .... Brings the historical fiction magic of allowing us to inhabit a time, place and perspective so very different from our own
Stunningly original ... Her skill is in creating a story that goes much deeper than its slender spine and spare prose might suggest to not only shine a light on the lives and experiences of two 'ordinary' women, but to draw clear contemporary echoes and parallels - around mental health, grief, motherhood and more - that resonate long after reading
This is the best first novel I've read in years. It is short, yet so full and so vivid; it is amazing.
Moving and unexpected, Mackenzie writes with great clarity and tenderness ... I tore through this
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain is a novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates the meeting of two extraordinary women like a shaft of sunlight
Magnificent, bold and compelling ... The writing is sometimes raw, at other times very beautiful - and from a place of deep knowledge and love of the historical period
A novel that fearlessly investigates the medieval mind ... Honest, insightful, erudite and wise
Compelling and beautiful. MacKenzie performs a small miracle in imagining the different lives and personalities of these two medieval women. She writes with great understanding - and the sensibility of a poet - about the power that their religious mysticism gives them
Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this insight into the lives of medieval women
The genius and lasting pleasure of this spare, profound novel lies in the vivid and detailed realisation of medieval urban Norfolk life; in the lucent beauty of MacKenzie's writing and in her superb characterisation of the two women
More than just a wonderful piece of historical fiction, it's a nuanced exploration of religious conviction, mental illness, misogyny and the legacy of grief
An intriguing concept and brilliant debut from Victoria MacKenzie, as she brings strong female characters to the fore
This book is a highly readable, creative imagining of their lives and meeting
This slim but powerful novel follows both medieval figures through their lives to the point of the fateful meeting
A tiny marvel, tenderly illuminating the inner lives of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
It is an extraordinary feat of historical ventriloquism; the women's inner lives, their religiosity, their sense of place in the world is miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done
Transfixing ... A vibrant portrait of female courage
I adored Victoria Mackenzie's sparse and lyrical debut ... It's intimate, moving and a wonderful snapshot of two extraordinary women's lives
A novel like this requires exquisite balance, not to tip the hand towards one or other of the paired yet opposing characters. This achieves that admirably. It would also be a clever choice for the National Theatre of Scotland to adapt
Lightly done but intensely felt, it's mind-expanding stuff
I've already finished Victoria Mackenzie's limpid novella . in which she imagines the meeting between Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, two great, but wildly different, English mystics
A beautiful book. I loved it. Margery and Julian are both so alive. The invisible balancing and weighing MacKenzie has done across the whole to bring them dialogue with each other and to bring the reader into emotional and spiritual connectedness with them is just so brilliant. And it's funny. It warmed my heart
Superlative ... Striking, elegant.. a novel like this requires exquisite balance ... this achieves this admirably
A startling read .... Brings the historical fiction magic of allowing us to inhabit a time, place and perspective so very different from our own
Stunningly original ... Her skill is in creating a story that goes much deeper than its slender spine and spare prose might suggest to not only shine a light on the lives and experiences of two 'ordinary' women, but to draw clear contemporary echoes and parallels - around mental health, grief, motherhood and more - that resonate long after reading
This is the best first novel I've read in years. It is short, yet so full and so vivid; it is amazing.
Moving and unexpected, Mackenzie writes with great clarity and tenderness ... I tore through this
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain is a novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates the meeting of two extraordinary women like a shaft of sunlight
Magnificent, bold and compelling ... The writing is sometimes raw, at other times very beautiful - and from a place of deep knowledge and love of the historical period
A novel that fearlessly investigates the medieval mind ... Honest, insightful, erudite and wise
Compelling and beautiful. MacKenzie performs a small miracle in imagining the different lives and personalities of these two medieval women. She writes with great understanding - and the sensibility of a poet - about the power that their religious mysticism gives them
Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this insight into the lives of medieval women
The genius and lasting pleasure of this spare, profound novel lies in the vivid and detailed realisation of medieval urban Norfolk life; in the lucent beauty of MacKenzie's writing and in her superb characterisation of the two women
More than just a wonderful piece of historical fiction, it's a nuanced exploration of religious conviction, mental illness, misogyny and the legacy of grief
An intriguing concept and brilliant debut from Victoria MacKenzie, as she brings strong female characters to the fore
This book is a highly readable, creative imagining of their lives and meeting