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John Saturnall's Feast

Autor Lawrence Norfolk
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2013
In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. It is 1625, and John and his mother are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla's Wood, John's mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Little does he know that one day, to keep hold of all that he holds most dear, he most realize his mother's vision - he must serve the Saturnall Feast.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408831168
ISBN-10: 1408831163
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Imagine Patrick Suskind'sPerfume, the turbulent England of Hilary Mantel'sWolf Halland magnificent, ancient dishes created by Heston Blumenthal

Notă biografică

Lawrence Norfolk is the bestselling author ofLemprière's Dictionary,The Pope's RhinocerosandIn the Shape of a Boar, three literary historical novels which have been translated into 24 languages. He was born in London in 1963 but moved with his parents to Iraq shortly after. They were evacuated following the Six Day War in 1967 and he grew up in the West Country of England. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Budapest Festival Prize for Literature and his work has been shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Award and the Wingate/Jewish Quarterly Prize for Literature. In 1992 he was listed as one ofGrantamagazine's 20 'Best of Young British Writers'. In the same year he reported on the war in Bosnia forNewsmagazine of Austria. His journalism and reviews have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout Europe and America. He lives in London with his wife and two sons.http://www.lawrencenorfolk.com/

Recenzii

A brilliant, erudite tale of cookery and witchcraft
A story of politics, pageantry but above all food, described with mouth-watering precision. No one else could have written it
Glorious ... The whole book is an extended fantasia on the idea of taste itself. Like all the best historical novels,John Saturnall's Feastis not just a novel set in some point in history ... but a novel about how histories infect stories
Lawrence Norfolk is just about ahead of everyone in his generation of English novelists
As vivid as it is mouth-watering ... This glorious, multilayered banquet of a book is clever and finely wrought, and the prose, steeped in the arcane language of 17th-century cuisine, brings it vividly and sensually to life
In Norfolk's skilful hands, there is no danger of verbal indigestion.John Saturnall's Feastis the most accessible of his works. A grown-up fairy tale ... Fantastical architecture and weird botany are a vivid background to the bloody conflict and swooning romance. Norfolk is an expert on obscure sources as well as sauces. His blend of horrid history and oddly credible fantasy deserves to be consumed by the masses
Witchcraft, cookery and war in seventeenth-century England ... from the master of the historical behemoth
A lyrical tale of historical havoc set in the English Civil War, with cookery as salvation. Class, war and folk tales are the themes of this ambitious, elegant novel
A fabulous novel. I was totally wrapped up in it, reading it on planes and trains and automobiles when it really should be read in front of a roaring fire with a huge mug of claret. It does what he has always done, which is wrap you totally into a world; utterly convincingly into that world ... extremely, extremely moving