Hisham Matar

Gebundenes Buch

A Month in Siena

Beschreibung

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundlymoving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.

Autor

Hisham Matar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the memoir The Return , which also received the PEN/Jean Stein Award and other international prizes, and was selected as one of The New York Times's Ten Best Books of the Year. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won several awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and a Commonwealth First Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was selected as one of the best books of the year by several publications, including the Chicago Tribune and The Guardian. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013. Born in New York City to Libyan parents, he spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and now divides his time between London and New York, where he teaches literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 133mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780593129135
• ISBN-10: 059312913X
• Artikelnr.: 56869379

Rezensionen

An intensely moving book, at once an affirmation of life's quiet dignities in the face of loss and a portrait of a city that comes to stand for all cities The Economist