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Land of the Living

Autor Georgina Harding
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2019
A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Vivid, illuminating and unbearably tense ... A masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love' GuardianCharlie's experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. Starting a family and working the land seem the best things a man can be doing. But a chasm exists between them. Memories flood Charlie's mind; at night, on rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can feel more real than the present. Though hidden even to himself, the darkest secrets of Charlie's adventures in the strange and shadowy ridges of the Nagaland mountains, his dream-like encounters with the mysterious and ancient tribesmen, leak and bleed through his consciousness. What should be said and what left unsaid? Is it possible to forge a new life in the wake of unfathomable horror? A compelling addition to Harding's cycle of acclaimed novels on themes of witness, memory and silence, Land of the Living questions the very nature of survival, and what it is that the living owe the dead.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408896228
ISBN-10: 1408896222
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Georgina Harding's novels have won universal critical acclaim; The Spy Game was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for the Encore Award, and Painter of Silence was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2012

Notă biografică

Georgina Harding is the author of four previous novels: The Gun Room, The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was shortlisted for the Encore Award, and Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Georgina Harding lives in London and on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.

Recenzii

Vivid, illuminating and unbearably tense, Land of the Living is a masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love
Georgina Harding's beautiful novels tell of wars, and troubled homecomings as traumatised fighting men try to re-enter interrupted marriages and homes grown strange ... Land of the Living is as wise and haunting as its predecessors
A quietly powerful novel
Audacious and moving . Elegiac, often elliptical vignettes that immaculately simulate Charlie's shame, regret and grief . Masterly
Remarkable and rare
Elegant and precise, Georgina Harding wonderfully describes Charlie's sense of dislocation, his emotional unease and the impossibility of communicating complex feelings to those who haven't experienced war
Tremendously imaginative, really compassionate . Manages to make them almost tangibly real, really immersive
A lyrical novel about war and memory
In sombre, elegant prose, Harding wonderfully describes Charlie's sense of dislocation, his emotional unease and the impossibility of communicating his complex feelings and fears to those closest to him
Revelatory in many ways, shining a light on the darker aspects of war . Quiet power and unexpected grace . Adds to Harding's reputation as an incisive chronicler of war and its aftermath
Written with an admirable precision, and the dark of the narrative has to be teased out . It is a novel of ideas, for it invites you to think of questions of responsibility, exploitation, cruelty, brutality ... One of those rare novels which has you thinking, when you reach the end, that there is much you have passed over which demands a second reading to be fully felt and understood
Over several restrained, poetic novels, Georgina Harding has carved out a space for herself as one of the most incisive explorers of physical adversity and its psychological effects . Harding's graceful style and self-control illuminate the crushing weight of history on the individual, and how different strategies for survival can cause a lifetime of pain and regret . Land of the Living is a poised and carefully crafted novel of powerful, submerged emotions, taking an under-explored aspect of Britain's war and finding in it something graceful and strange, mythic as well
Disquieting
Perfect - a flawless gem of a novel from start to finish . Wonderful, strange and wise