Time Song
Searching for Doggerland, Nominiert: Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2019
(Sprache: Englisch)
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT GOLDEN BEER BOOK PRIZE 2019**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2020**
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past:...
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2020**
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past:...
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT GOLDEN BEER BOOK PRIZE 2019****SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2020**
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe, until it was finally submerged by rising sea levels around 5000 BC.
Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen 'songs' and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of Doggerland. She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago. She visits a cave where the remnants of a Neanderthal meal have turned to stone. In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man who seems to be about to wake from a dream, even though he has lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age.
Time Song reveals yet again, that Julia Blackburn is one of the most original writers in Britain, with each of its pages bringing a surprise, an epiphany, a phrase of such beauty and simple profundity you can only gasp.
'Blackburn's book is startling, funny and often very moving' New Statesman
Autoren-Porträt von Julia Blackburn
Blackburn, JuliaJulia Blackburn has written ten books of non-fiction, the most recent of which, Time Song, was shortlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize. Her family memoir The Three of Us won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, were both shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Julia Blackburn
- 2019, 304 Seiten, Maße: 17,5 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Jonathan Cape
- ISBN-10: 1911214209
- ISBN-13: 9781911214205
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A poetic and fascinating exploration of life on Doggerland... This is one of the only books I've ever read that has made me feel better about climate change. Guardian *Book of the Week*
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