Carys Davies

Gebundenes Buch

The Mission House

Beschreibung

Taking refuge in a mission house in a remote hill town in India, an Englishman fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life bonds with a Padre's daughter against a backdrop of escalating religious tensions.

Autor

Carys Davies's debut novel West was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, runner-up for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction. She is also the author of The Mission House, which was The Sunday Times (London) 2020 Novel of the Year, and two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Her other awards include the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award, and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Born in Wales, she lived and worked for twelve years in New York and Chicago, and now lives in Edinburgh. Clear is her most recent novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner Book Company
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781982144838
• ISBN-10: 1982144831
• Artikelnr.: 60171317