An Honourable Man
(Sprache: Englisch)
From one of Britain's most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England. Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. Slovo...
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From one of Britain's most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England. Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. Slovo draws on the lives of two real men: Charles Gordon, an heroic, hubristic, career army man whose refusal to obey orders helped bring down the Gladstone government, and W T Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, the father of tabloid journalism. Their story is intercuts with the tale of a poor, working woman in London. This is a book about destiny and about how wrong men can be; about foreign adventure and heroism doomed to failure; about women struggling to carve a place for themselves in the world; about political compromise and military mayhem. It is magnificent.
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It is 1884. In Khartoum, General Gordon stands on the roof of his fortress as the city is besieged. He has vowed to fight the Mahdi to the death. At his side is the boy he rescued from the English dockyardslums - his reluctant last ally. Approaching with the Camel Corps is a young doctor who has joined the expedition to rescue Gordon. As the men make agonising progress across the desert, John Clarke struggles to be the hero of his imagining, while his abandoned wife, Mary, troubles his conscience. Back in London, as controversy rages over the expedition, Mary finds herself adrift and isolated. Her only release comes from laudanum, an addiction that will take her into Victorian London's darkest corners.
Autoren-Porträt von Gillian Slovo
Gillian Slovo, geb. 1952, ist eine von drei Töchtern der beide legendären weißen Bürgerrechtler Joe Slovo und Ruth First. Ihre Mutter starb 1982 bei einem Attetat. Ihr Vater Joe Slovo war Rechtsanwalt, schloss sich in den 50er Jahren der kommunistischen Patei Südafrikas an und später dem ANC. Wegen seinem politischen Engagment hatte er viele Gegner, die ihn ständig mit Mordanschlägen bedrohten. Vor diesem Hinetrgrund war die Kindheit für Gillian Slovo nicht einfach und geprägt von Polizeirazzien, Verhaftungen und Prozessen. Nun lebt sie mit ihrer Familie in London und ist erfolgreiche Autorin einiger Krimis.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gillian Slovo
- 2012, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13,7 x 2,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 184408664X
- ISBN-13: 9781844086641
Sprache:
Englisch
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