James Meek

Gebundenes Buch

To Calais, in Ordinary Time

Beschreibung

The new novel about home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the fourteenth century, from the Booker-longlisted author of The People's Act of Love

Autor

James Meek is the author of six novels including The People's Act of Love, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's last novel The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and two books of nonfiction, Private Island, which won the 2015 Orwell Prize, and Dreams of Leaving and Remaining. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781786896742
• ISBN-10: 1786896745
• Artikelnr.: 57552895

Rezensionen

Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled by a story so original and so fully imagined. Meek shows the era as alien, which it is, and doesn't falsify it by assimilating it to ours. But his characters are recognisably warm and human HILARY MANTEL