The Night Watch
shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Nominiert: Man Booker Prize, 2006.Nominiert: Orange Prize, 2006.Nominiert: Nibbies, 2007.Ausgezeichnet: Stonewall Writer of the Year, 2006.Nominiert: James Tait Black Me
(Sprache: Englisch)
Die Geschichte von vier Menschen in London während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, drei Frauen und ein junger Mann mit dunklen Geheimnissen, persönlichen Dämonen aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, verwickelt, tragisch, erotisch und hoch spannend. Ein brillanter Roman.
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Die Geschichte von vier Menschen in London während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, drei Frauen und ein junger Mann mit dunklen Geheimnissen, persönlichen Dämonen aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, verwickelt, tragisch, erotisch und hoch spannend. Ein brillanter Roman.
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize
'Brilliantly done . . . the period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story. It's a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller.
This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching . . . Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret . . . Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover . . . Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances . . .
Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.
Autoren-Porträt von Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters wurde 1966 in Wales geboren. Sie hat in englischer Literatur promoviert und zahlreiche Artikel in Kultur- und Literaturzeitschriften veröffentlicht. 1998 erhielt sie den New London Writers Award des London Arts Board. Buchveröffentlichungen, Auszeichnung mit dem Times Young Novelist of the Year Award und den Somerset Maugham Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sarah Waters
- 2007, repr., 512 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 3,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 1844082415
- ISBN-13: 9781844082414
Sprache:
Englisch
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The Night Watch is a truthful, lovely book that needs no conjuring tricks to make you want to read it again' Philip Hensher, Observer 'Brilliantly done... the period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story. It's a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday The Night Watch leaves you with the sense of having read something rich and complex pared down with consummate skill by a first-class storyteller into a series of deceptively simple tales of love. Which is a fancy way of saying that Sarah Waters's latest 'Waters secret is her absolute control of the pace - each strand of the plot is paid out carefully at the same speed, no rushing, no favouritism. The characters are given equal weight and time, so that by the end of the first section you're equally grippe ...this outstandingly gifted novelist releases her imagination into her most compelling depiction yet' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'It is from this reverse structure that the novel draws its haunting power, forcing the reader to experience time not as an ongoing narrative but as memory. We see, in fact, the beginning of each individual tragedy after we have witnessed it consequence. Carol Ann Duffy, Daily Telegraph 'The Night Watch is sharply and compassionately observed, richly coloured, and compelling to read' Michele Roberts, Independent
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