Samantha Harvey

The Western Wind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written with timeless elegance, steeped in the spiritual traditions of the Middle Ages, and brimming with propulsive suspense, Harvey's medieval mystery, told in reverse, is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780802147721
• ISBN-10: 0802147720
• Artikelnr.: 54801104

Autorenporträt

SAMANTHA HARVEY is the author of three novels, Dear Thief, All Is Song, and The Wilderness, which won the Betty Trask Prize. Her books have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize, as well as longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize. She lives in Bath, UK, and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.

Rezensionen

My Ancient Mariner novel, the book I'm destined to traipse around fervently pressing into people's hands . . . [The Western Wind is a] breathtaking exploration of guilt, communal and individual, secrecy and power . . . It made me gasp, and when I'd finished it, I started it again. Alex Clark Times Literary Supplement __Books of the Year 2018__