You Will Be Safe Here
Autor Damian Barren Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408886052
ISBN-10: 1408886057
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408886057
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
His memoir, Maggie & Me, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, winning the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. It has been optioned by STV Productions, with BAFTA-nominated writer Andrea Gibb (Call the Midwife, Swallows and Amazons) to develop the story as a long-running series for TV
Notă biografică
Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the Big Issue and High Life and often appears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. You Will Be Safe Here is his debut novel. Damian Barr lives in Brighton.@Damian_Barr
Recenzii
Powerful
An exceptional book
Remarkable
Beautiful
Stunning
Barr has achieved something remarkable - a powerfully moving tale that weaves dazzlingly
Eye-opening
An incredible novel
This is a book that tilts the world . Full of heart and emotion
Epic . Immersive, moving, horrifying and beautiful. You will LOVE it
I want you to read this
A gripping, heartbreaking tale of uncomfortable histories and the resilience of love
Barr has a keen eye for wincingly evocative detail ... Lyrical
Brutal, haunting, redemptive and with not an ounce of fat left on it. Beautiful
Eye-opening and meticulously researched
Both a damning indictment of one of the most ignoble periods in British history and a haunting portrait of modern South Africa
Funny, tender, and heartbreaking ... A gifted storyteller
Skilfully interweaves interlocking stories from the Boer War and contemporary South Africa as it unflinchingly brings the horrors of hidden colonial history into the light of day and shows how hurt seeps down the generations
This would be an achievement for a third or fourth novel; for a first, it's an astonishing one. Barr's handling of his bravely chosen material - the conjoined shames of British and Afrikaaner history - is deft and the results will haunt you
Devastating and formally ingenious, it traces the paths by which historical grief engenders present violence . A vitally brave and luminously compassionate book
It's rare for a novel to go so deep that you come out of reading it a different person from when you went in. Damian Barr's investigation of a part of South Africa's history the British have been trying to forget for many many years is such a book. It was a very brave book to write, and parts of it call for some courage to read, but nothing more unusual and impressive has appeared for years
Damian Barr has written a novel concerned with single strain of human history, of how a people are made and unmade and how they go on to make and unmake others, of the stories they tell themselves to allow such things to pass. In so doing he has captured the threads of all of human history. You Will Be Safe Here is as unexpected as it is unsettling, both in the telling and in the way that telling works to reveal hidden trails through the points of light and darkness, such that the reader arrives at the end to stand before a view over one hundred years in the making and says, I see it now
You Will Be Safe Here is eviscerating in its rendering of violence and masculinity in South Africa [and] exquisite in its depiction of suffering and love. You will see the world differently after reading this - it speaks so eloquently and compassionately against a world defined by dominance and brute force and the blind repetition of history. It brought me to tears - the beauty of the language, Barr's tenderness with his characters, and the horror that is done in the name of power
[Barr] has achieved something remarkable - a powerfully moving tale that weaves dazzlingly between the Boer war and contemporary South Africa
Few writers can wind you with a word. But Damian Barr doesn't just do that, he tickles and then floors you, delights only to devastate, within a single phrase
Damian Barr splits open lost history, sunlit moments of love and all private grief with this novel, a chisel at one end and a telescope at the other. Insightful and compassionate, open-hearted and unblinking, Barr gives us three unforgettable stories in this powerful, groundbreaking book
Wonderful. I finished the book in tears ... [Barr] writes beautifully, emotively and yet cleanly, without pressing any point so hard that it becomes polemic instead of truth
Sweeping yet intimate, heart-breaking yet often very funny . This book confirms Barr as one of our most brilliant and big-hearted writers
Brave, compassionate and beautifully written
A gorgeously written novel
Barr proves that the future has the power to reshape the past. He also reminds us of the effects of time mean people living in the same place can inhabit different worlds . Time is almost too quaint itself, too neutral a concept if we think about it only in terms of measurement, to properly capture what Barr sets out to achieve. This is a book about time as the accumulation of experience, both personal and collective. Experience is the same as history and history is the things people do. This is a book about the things people do to each other
Pulls you in, breaks your heart and then ultimately repairs it.
There is pain on these pages and poetry too. I left this book bruised yet somehow better for it
An exceptional book
Remarkable
Beautiful
Stunning
Barr has achieved something remarkable - a powerfully moving tale that weaves dazzlingly
Eye-opening
An incredible novel
This is a book that tilts the world . Full of heart and emotion
Epic . Immersive, moving, horrifying and beautiful. You will LOVE it
I want you to read this
A gripping, heartbreaking tale of uncomfortable histories and the resilience of love
Barr has a keen eye for wincingly evocative detail ... Lyrical
Brutal, haunting, redemptive and with not an ounce of fat left on it. Beautiful
Eye-opening and meticulously researched
Both a damning indictment of one of the most ignoble periods in British history and a haunting portrait of modern South Africa
Funny, tender, and heartbreaking ... A gifted storyteller
Skilfully interweaves interlocking stories from the Boer War and contemporary South Africa as it unflinchingly brings the horrors of hidden colonial history into the light of day and shows how hurt seeps down the generations
This would be an achievement for a third or fourth novel; for a first, it's an astonishing one. Barr's handling of his bravely chosen material - the conjoined shames of British and Afrikaaner history - is deft and the results will haunt you
Devastating and formally ingenious, it traces the paths by which historical grief engenders present violence . A vitally brave and luminously compassionate book
It's rare for a novel to go so deep that you come out of reading it a different person from when you went in. Damian Barr's investigation of a part of South Africa's history the British have been trying to forget for many many years is such a book. It was a very brave book to write, and parts of it call for some courage to read, but nothing more unusual and impressive has appeared for years
Damian Barr has written a novel concerned with single strain of human history, of how a people are made and unmade and how they go on to make and unmake others, of the stories they tell themselves to allow such things to pass. In so doing he has captured the threads of all of human history. You Will Be Safe Here is as unexpected as it is unsettling, both in the telling and in the way that telling works to reveal hidden trails through the points of light and darkness, such that the reader arrives at the end to stand before a view over one hundred years in the making and says, I see it now
You Will Be Safe Here is eviscerating in its rendering of violence and masculinity in South Africa [and] exquisite in its depiction of suffering and love. You will see the world differently after reading this - it speaks so eloquently and compassionately against a world defined by dominance and brute force and the blind repetition of history. It brought me to tears - the beauty of the language, Barr's tenderness with his characters, and the horror that is done in the name of power
[Barr] has achieved something remarkable - a powerfully moving tale that weaves dazzlingly between the Boer war and contemporary South Africa
Few writers can wind you with a word. But Damian Barr doesn't just do that, he tickles and then floors you, delights only to devastate, within a single phrase
Damian Barr splits open lost history, sunlit moments of love and all private grief with this novel, a chisel at one end and a telescope at the other. Insightful and compassionate, open-hearted and unblinking, Barr gives us three unforgettable stories in this powerful, groundbreaking book
Wonderful. I finished the book in tears ... [Barr] writes beautifully, emotively and yet cleanly, without pressing any point so hard that it becomes polemic instead of truth
Sweeping yet intimate, heart-breaking yet often very funny . This book confirms Barr as one of our most brilliant and big-hearted writers
Brave, compassionate and beautifully written
A gorgeously written novel
Barr proves that the future has the power to reshape the past. He also reminds us of the effects of time mean people living in the same place can inhabit different worlds . Time is almost too quaint itself, too neutral a concept if we think about it only in terms of measurement, to properly capture what Barr sets out to achieve. This is a book about time as the accumulation of experience, both personal and collective. Experience is the same as history and history is the things people do. This is a book about the things people do to each other
Pulls you in, breaks your heart and then ultimately repairs it.
There is pain on these pages and poetry too. I left this book bruised yet somehow better for it