Sophie Mackintosh

Broschiertes Buch

Cursed Bread

Beschreibung

Told from the perspective of the baker's wife, recounts the true story of the small French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit which experienced an unsolved, mass poisoning after World War II thought to be caused by spoiled bread or government testing.

Autor

SOPHIE MACKINTOSH is the author of Blue Ticket and The Water Cure, which won the 2019 Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. In 2016 she won the White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago/Stylist short story competition. She has been published in The New York Times, Elle, and Granta, among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Diversified Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780593678244
• ISBN-10: 0593678249
• Artikelnr.: 64362116

Rezensionen

A shimmering fever-dream of a novel, teasing the reader [..] while finding a fresh narrative framework for the relationship between monotonous small-town life and repressed female desire. Cursed Bread contains more riches than many a novel twice its length Telegraph