MacLaverty, B: Midwinter Break
Nominiert: Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2017, Ausgezeichnet: Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards - Eason Novel of the Year 2017
(Sprache: Englisch)
A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year
Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year
An intense exploration of love and uncertainty when a long-married couple take a midwinter break in Amsterdam.
Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year
An intense exploration of love and uncertainty when a long-married couple take a midwinter break in Amsterdam.
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A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year
Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year
An intense exploration of love and uncertainty when a long-married couple take a midwinter break in Amsterdam.
Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year
An intense exploration of love and uncertainty when a long-married couple take a midwinter break in Amsterdam.
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A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the YearWinner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year
'Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain. Full of scenes that are rendered with exquisite accuracy and care, allowing the most detailed physical descriptions to be placed against the possibility of a rich spiritual life, this is a novel of great ambition by an artist at the height of his powers.' Colm Tóibín
Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend. A holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar - but over the course of the four days we discover the deep uncertainties which exist between them.
Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Stella is tired of his lifestyle, worried about their marriage and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. Things are not helped by memories which have begun to resurface of a troubled time in their native Ireland. As their midwinter break comes to an end, we understand how far apart they are - and can only watch as they struggle to save themselves.
Bernard MacLaverty is a master storyteller, and Midwinter Break is the essential MacLaverty novel: accurate, compassionate observation, effortlessly elegant writing and a tender, intimate, heart-rending story - but it is also a profound examination of human love and how we live together, a chamber piece of real resonance and power. Forty years on from his first book, Bernard MacLaverty has written his masterpiece.
Autoren-Porträt von Bernard Maclaverty
Bernard Mac Laverty, geboren 1942 in Belfast; war tätig in einem medizinischen Labor und studierte an der Universität. Veröffentlichung eines Kinderbuches und sehr erfolgreicher Kurzgeschichten. Der Autor ist Lehrer und lebt an der Westküste von Schottland.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bernard Maclaverty
- 2017, 242 Seiten, Maße: 13,4 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Jonathan Cape
- ISBN-10: 1787330214
- ISBN-13: 9781787330214
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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