The Siege
Autor Helen Dunmoreen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 dec 2010
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive...
A brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives, and a profoundly moving celebration of love, life and survival.
'Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better' Rachel Cusk,Daily Telegraph
'Literary writing of the highest order set against a background if suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there' Richard Overy,Sunday Telegraph
'Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should. . . a world-class novel' Antony Beevor,The Times
Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel, the McKitterick Prize winning,Zennor in Darkness. Her novels,Counting the Stars,Your Blue-Eyed Boy,With Your Crooked Heart,Burning Bright,House of Orphans,Mourning Ruby,A Spell of Winter, andTalking to the Dead, and her collection of short storiesLove of Fat Menare all published by Penguin. This edition includes the first chapter ofBetrayal, the sequel toThe Siege.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241952191
ISBN-10: 0241952190
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241952190
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Helen
Dunmore
was
an
award-winning
novelist,
children's
author
and
poet.
She
published
twelve
novels
includingZennor
in
Darkness,
which
won
the
McKitterick
Prize;Burning
Bright;
A
Spell
of
Winter,which
won
the
inaugural
Orange
Prize
in
1996;Talking
to
the
Dead;
Your
Blue-Eyed
Boy;
With
Your
Crooked
Heart;
The
Siege,which
was
shortlisted
for
the
2001
Whitbread
Novel
of
the
Year
Award
and
the
Orange
Prize
for
Fiction
2002;Mourning
RubyandHouse
of
Orphans.She
was
posthumously
awarded
the
Costa
2017
prize
for
her
poetry
collectionInside
the
Wave.
Recenzii
A
Tolstoyan
epic
of
love
and
war;
life
and
death...she
writes
beautifully
Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better
Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel
Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there
A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds
In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece
A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time
An important as well as a thrilling work of art
A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful
A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive
Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better
Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel
Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there
A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds
In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece
A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time
An important as well as a thrilling work of art
A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful
A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive
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Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.