My Name Is Leon
Autor Kit de Waalen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2017
**WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVEL PRIZE**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016**
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE**
** LONGLISTED FOR THE GLASS BELL AWARD **
It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one home, but have they found another?
Maureen feeds and looks after them. She has wild red hair and mutters swearwords under her breath when she thinks they can't hear. She claims everything will be okay. But will they ever see their mother again? Who are the couple who secretly visit Jake? Between the street violence and the street parties, Leon must find a way to reunite his family...
'Startlingly funny. Balances the gritty with the feel good' Observer
'Vivid and endearing - a very powerful book' Emma Healey, bestselling author of Elizabeth is Missing
'Authentic and beautiful, urgent and honest, this novel makes room in your heart' Chris Cleave, bestselling author of The Other Hand
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241973387
ISBN-10: 0241973384
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241973384
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Kit
de
Waal,
born
to
an
Irish
mother
and
Caribbean
father,
was
brought
up
among
the
Irish
community
of
Birmingham
in
the
60's
and
70's.
Her
debut
novelMy
Name
Is
Leonwas
an
international
bestseller,
shortlisted
for
the
Costa
First
Novel
Award,
longlisted
for
the
Desmond
Elliott
Prize
and
won
the
Kerry
Group
Irish
Novel
of
the
Year
Award
for
2017.
Her
second
novel,The
Trick
to
Time,was
longlisted
for
the
Women's
Prize
and
her
young
adult
novelBecoming
Dinahis
shortlisted
for
the
Carnegie
CLIP
Award
2020.
She
also
crowdfunded
and
edited
an
anthology
of
working
class
memoir,Common
People,which
was
published
in
2018.
Kit
was
named
the
FutureBook
Person
of
the
Year
in
2019.
Recenzii
A
brother
chosen.
A
brother
left
behind.
And
a
family
where
you'd
least
expect
to
find
one
Tender and heart-breaking
A beautiful story told with compassion, urgency and wit
Vivid and endearing - a very powerful book
Leon is pure goodwill in a wicked world, and he won't leave you when you put this unique book down.Authentic and beautiful, urgent and honest, this novel does what only the best do: it quietly makes room in your heart.At the end of the story I couldn't bear to close the book on Leon. I felt I was abandoning him. I wanted to talk about it straight away with someone else who'd read it, and I know a great many readers will feel the same.
Beautiful and heartbreaking - I cried buckets of tears for Leon and his family
A compelling story...Kit de Waal is to be congratulated
Hotly anticipated and heartbreaking... a great read...it's no mean feat for a debut to so perfectly capture the world through the eyes of a child...his illuminating child's eye view of adult affairs harks back to the likes of Scout inTo Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer and more recently Mark Haddon'sCurious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Theunforgettablestory of a boy struggling to belong, and the author captures both his mindset and the period impeccably.Heartbreaking and uplifting - just read it
My debut of the year so far...heartbreaking and warm at the same time
Afunny, sad and endearingdebut
Searing
Everything inMy Name Is Leonrings true. It's an everyday story and this actually makes it more powerful: these are the lows and joys of real life. Someone will be living them as you read
A touching, thought-provoking debut
Powerful and gorgeously written...may make you cry, but it's also uplifting and full of hope
Heart-breaking yet told with wit and compassion - I loved it
Full of small exquisite details, de Waal's novel is ultimately affirmative.But be warned - it's a bit of a weepie
Deeply moving, compulsively readable and, despite the heart-rending subject matter, often funny
The voice of Leon isdistinctive, beguiling and ultimately compelling, resonant of the young narrators inRoomorThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Beguiling, tender, funny, compassionate ... entirely heartbreaking without being bleak
Conjures the plight of children in care - and the Britain of the 1980s - with heartbreaking intensity
It's a wonderful book.I really enjoyed it. It is extremely affecting
I thinkMy Name is Leonis a really stand out novel
Simply told and never over-written
A piercing story: fierce, touching and with the absolute ring of truth-to-experience
Many are describing it as the debut of the year, in an already crowded market
Tender and heart-breaking
A beautiful story told with compassion, urgency and wit
Vivid and endearing - a very powerful book
Leon is pure goodwill in a wicked world, and he won't leave you when you put this unique book down.Authentic and beautiful, urgent and honest, this novel does what only the best do: it quietly makes room in your heart.At the end of the story I couldn't bear to close the book on Leon. I felt I was abandoning him. I wanted to talk about it straight away with someone else who'd read it, and I know a great many readers will feel the same.
Beautiful and heartbreaking - I cried buckets of tears for Leon and his family
A compelling story...Kit de Waal is to be congratulated
Hotly anticipated and heartbreaking... a great read...it's no mean feat for a debut to so perfectly capture the world through the eyes of a child...his illuminating child's eye view of adult affairs harks back to the likes of Scout inTo Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer and more recently Mark Haddon'sCurious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Theunforgettablestory of a boy struggling to belong, and the author captures both his mindset and the period impeccably.Heartbreaking and uplifting - just read it
My debut of the year so far...heartbreaking and warm at the same time
Afunny, sad and endearingdebut
Searing
Everything inMy Name Is Leonrings true. It's an everyday story and this actually makes it more powerful: these are the lows and joys of real life. Someone will be living them as you read
A touching, thought-provoking debut
Powerful and gorgeously written...may make you cry, but it's also uplifting and full of hope
Heart-breaking yet told with wit and compassion - I loved it
Full of small exquisite details, de Waal's novel is ultimately affirmative.But be warned - it's a bit of a weepie
Deeply moving, compulsively readable and, despite the heart-rending subject matter, often funny
The voice of Leon isdistinctive, beguiling and ultimately compelling, resonant of the young narrators inRoomorThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Beguiling, tender, funny, compassionate ... entirely heartbreaking without being bleak
Conjures the plight of children in care - and the Britain of the 1980s - with heartbreaking intensity
It's a wonderful book.I really enjoyed it. It is extremely affecting
I thinkMy Name is Leonis a really stand out novel
Simply told and never over-written
A piercing story: fierce, touching and with the absolute ring of truth-to-experience
Many are describing it as the debut of the year, in an already crowded market