Guinevere Glasfurd

The Year Without Summer

1816 - one event, six lives, a world changed - longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2021

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Produktbeschreibung

A supervolcanic explosion in 1815 led to the extraordinary 'Year Without Summer' in 1816 - a massive climate disruption causing famine, poverty, rebellion - one event, six lives, and a world changed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Two Roads
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 641616
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781473672338
• ISBN-10: 1473672333
• Artikelnr.: 60002813

Autorenporträt

Guinevere Glasfurd is a critically acclaimed novelist. Her debut novel, The Words in my Hand, was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa First Novel Award and Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and was longlisted in France for the Prix du Roman FNAC. Her second novel, The Year Without Summer, was written with support from the MacDowell Foundation, longlisted for the Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize 2021 and shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award 2020. Awarded grants from the Arts Council England and the British Council for her work, her writing has also appeared in The Scotsman , Mslexia and in a collection published by the National Galleries of Scotland. Originally from Lancaster, she now lives near Cambridge with her husband and daughter.

Rezensionen

Glasfurd is a strikingly sharp and subtle writer who finds beauty in the bleakest situations. She has the rare ability to conjure characters vividly in a few deft strokes and the gift, rarer still, of making us care deeply about them . . . an angry and tender interrogation of tangibly real lives . . . Glasfurd's hard-hitting admonition deserves to find its mark. The Guardian 20200305