The Wilderness
Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2009
(Sprache: Englisch)
An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts
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An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts
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It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's.As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all?
From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.
Autoren-Porträt von Samantha Harvey
Die englische Autorin Samantha Harvey, Jg. 1975, hat in Irland, Neuseeland und Japan gelebt, geschrieben und unterrichtet. Sie hat Philosophie studiert und ist Mitbegründerin einer wohltätigen Umweltorganisation. Das US-Magazin Harper s Bazar kürte Harvey zu einer der Women to Watch in 2009 .
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Samantha Harvey
- 2009, 336 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Cape
- ISBN-10: 0224089684
- ISBN-13: 9780224089685
Sprache:
Englisch
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