The Dig: Now a BAFTA-nominated motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James
Autor John Prestonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 ian 2021
'Exquisitely original' Ian MacEwan
'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert Harris
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find...
John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.
'A tale of rivalry, loss and thwarted love so absorbing that I read right through lunchtime one day, and it's not often I miss a meal' Nigella Lawson
'A delicate evocation of a vanished era'Sunday Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241989630
ISBN-10: 0241989639
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Media tie-in
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241989639
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Media tie-in
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
John
Prestonis
a
former
Arts
Editor
of
theEvening
Standardand
theSunday
Telegraph.
For
ten
years
he
was
the
Sunday
Telegraph's
television
critic
and
one
of
its
chief
feature
writers.
His
novel,The
Dig,
based
on
the
1939
archaeological
excavation
at
Sutton
Hoo
in
Suffolk,
has
been
filmed
starring
Ralph
Fiennes,
Carey
Mulligan
and
Lily
James.
His
first
nonfiction
book,A
Very
English
Scandal,
was
published
to
great
acclaim
in
2016
and
turned
into
BAFTA-winning
BBC
drama
series.
His
latest
book,Fall,
tells
the
story
of
the
rise
and
fall
of
the
politician
and
business
magnate
Robert
Maxwell.
Recenzii
'Very
fine,
engrossing,exquisitely
original'
'An enthralling story of love and loss, a real literary treasure. One of the most original novels of the year'
'You don't need to be in archaeology - this is a tale of rivalry, loss and thwarted love.It's so absorbing that I read right through lunchtime one day, and it's not often I miss a meal'
'A rich vein of dry humour runs throughout'
'Intriguing, tender and entertaining ...easily Preston's best'
'Adelicate, quietly affecting human drama'
'A moving novel thatcoheres wonderfully as it progresses'
'A delicate evocation of a vanished era'
Wonderful, evocative.From this simple tale of dirt, Preston has produced the finest gold.He keeps an iron grip on the reader's attention
'Beautifully written...there is a true and wonderful ending to the story'
'Wistful and poignant.A masterpiece in Chekhovian understatement'
'Exciting, evocative and beautifully written.A treasure in itself'
'Shimmers with longing and regret . . . Preston writes with economical grace . . . He has written a kind of universal chamber piece, small in detail, beautifully made and liable to linger on in the heart and the mind.It is something utterly unfamiliar, and quite wonderful'
'An enthralling story of love and loss, a real literary treasure. One of the most original novels of the year'
'You don't need to be in archaeology - this is a tale of rivalry, loss and thwarted love.It's so absorbing that I read right through lunchtime one day, and it's not often I miss a meal'
'A rich vein of dry humour runs throughout'
'Intriguing, tender and entertaining ...easily Preston's best'
'Adelicate, quietly affecting human drama'
'A moving novel thatcoheres wonderfully as it progresses'
'A delicate evocation of a vanished era'
Wonderful, evocative.From this simple tale of dirt, Preston has produced the finest gold.He keeps an iron grip on the reader's attention
'Beautifully written...there is a true and wonderful ending to the story'
'Wistful and poignant.A masterpiece in Chekhovian understatement'
'Exciting, evocative and beautifully written.A treasure in itself'
'Shimmers with longing and regret . . . Preston writes with economical grace . . . He has written a kind of universal chamber piece, small in detail, beautifully made and liable to linger on in the heart and the mind.It is something utterly unfamiliar, and quite wonderful'
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In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find.
In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find.