Life After Life
Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2013
(Sprache: Englisch)
Kate Atkinson's stunning new novel, about a woman who lives through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz, and which asks: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
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Kate Atkinson's stunning new novel, about a woman who lives through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz, and which asks: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
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What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?
Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, she finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here isKate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
Autoren-Porträt von Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson, geb. 1951 in York, studierte in Dundee und kehrte nach ihrem Universitätsabschluss in ihre Heimatstadt zurück. Bereits ihre ersten Kurzgeschichten werden mit Preisen ausgezeichnet.1996 erhält sie für ihren ersten Roman (Behind the Scenes at the Museum, deutsch: Familienalbum) den angesehenen Whitbread Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kate Atkinson
- 2013, 480 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 3,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Doubleday
- ISBN-10: 0385618689
- ISBN-13: 9780385618687
Sprache:
Englisch
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