William Golding

Broschiertes Buch

The Inheritors

Beschreibung

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri A Penguin Classic When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer’s brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening: inexplicable scents and sounds. Imaginable beasts are half-glimpsed in the forest; upright creatures of bone-faces and deerskins. What the people do not know is that their day is already over.

Autor

William Golding (1911 – 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the "reject pile" at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. Ben Okri (introduction) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780143138785
• ISBN-10: 0143138782
• Artikelnr.: 74522834

Rezensionen

Extraordinary strokes of innovation ... Genius ... Remarkable in the literature of the twentieth century. Ben Okri