Miss Webster and Chérif
(Sprache: Englisch)
A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britiain's finest novelists
A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britiain's finest novelists
A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britiain's finest novelists
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A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britiain's finest novelists
A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britiain's finest novelists
A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britiain's finest novelists
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Elizabeth Webster is a sixty-nine year old retired school teacher. She is a tough, old bird: spiky, cynical and adamantly independent; a woman who has never married, has no friends and lost touch with all her family. In Little Blessington, the village she lives in, the Miss Marple-like figure is regarded as something of a local oddity.Then one day a beautiful young Moroccan knocks at her door. Cherif's mother befriended Miss Webster on her holiday to Morocco and now the young man is here to begin university in the town nearby. Before she knows it, Miss Webster finds herself with an unexpected lodger.
The two could not be more different: the gentle, shy, well mannered young man, bewildered by this strange, new world; and the sharp-tongued old spinster who guides him through its maze. Yet little by little, they become friends. But the villagers of Little Blessington are suspicious. Cherif is too handsome, too young and he's Arab. No good can come of this.
Miss Webster and Cherif tells the oldest of stories - an unlikely friendship, the prejudices of a small, rural community, the arrival of a foreigner - but in a new, post 9/11, world. Patricia Duncker is one of Britain's finest novelists and she is on top of her form. This is an entertaining, clever, provocative book, full of surprises, nuance and humour.
Autoren-Porträt von Patricia Duncker
Duncker, PatriciaPatricia Duncker is the author of five previous novels: Hallucinating Foucault (winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize in 1996), The Deadly Space Between, James Miranda Barry, Miss Webster and Chérif (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007) and The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge (shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award for Best Crime Novel of the Year in 2010). She has written two books of short fiction, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees (shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award in 1997) and Seven Tales of Sex and Death, and a collection of essays, Writing on the Wall. Patricia Duncker is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patricia Duncker
- 2006, 256 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747584303
- ISBN-13: 9780747584308
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'Patricia Duncker should be made a DBE' Louis de Bernières
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