Rupert Thomson

eBook, ePUB

Barcelona Dreaming (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD PRIZE FOR FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE

'His confident, spellbinding prose is jewelled with uncanny details, gliding along in language that strikes, unsettles, and reawakens at every turn...This is a brilliant book' Maya C. Popa

'Cool and controlled...Electrifying...Reading Rupert Thomson novels can easily become an obsession' The Times

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Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters.

The stories are narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited love, all of whose lives will be changed forever. Underpinning the novel, and casting a long shadow, is a crime committed against a young Moroccan immigrant.

Exploring themes of addiction, racism, celebrity, immigration, and self-delusion, and fuelled by a longing for the unattainable and a nostalgia for what is about to be lost, Barcelona Dreaming is a love letter to one of the world's most beautiful cities and a powerful and poignant fable for our uncertain times.

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Autor

Rupert Thomson is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including Katherine Carlyle; Secrecy; The Insult, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and selected by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time; The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by Ana Kokkinos; and Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. His memoir, This Party's Got to Stop, was named Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year. He lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472153524
• Artikelnr.: 59738623

Rezensionen

The Irish Times: Best Book of the Year
New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice
The Times (UK): Book of the Week Pick
Foreword Reviews: Book of the Day Pick
Conde Nast Traveler: Best Book of the Season Pick

These numinous stories, where reality is just the launchpad for flights of extravagant, erotically charged fancy, recall much of Bolaño s early work Barcelona Dreaming is a wonderful book, a phantasmal hymn to a city and a lost way of life. New York Times Book Review

The sense of place is brilliantly evoked and the stories build, cleverly linked together, into a beguiling love letter to the great city. Condé Nast

Traveller

[A] shimmering triptych With seamless prose, Thomson affords an intimate glimpse into the three protagonists hearts and minds Descriptive flourishes, meanwhile, produce a consistent stream of wonderfully odd details Thomson gracefully ties together themes of longing, love, and the inequities caused by age and race. The result is memorable and moving. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

[Thomson] writes with a cleareyed compassion and never forces moments; everything in the novel feels organic. [He] inhabits the voices of his characters perfectly [a] trip to Barcelona well worth taking powerful. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Linked by incisive narrators and chance encounters, Rupert Thomson s alluring novel Barcelona Dreaming braids three stories into a lush exploration of love and unmet longings. Foreword Reviews

I don t know how Rupert Thomson does it. Each novel he writes is a new vision of a new world; he s the least predictable, the most surprising of writers. Barcelona Dreaming is set in that city, and it seems as if Thomson knows every corner of it, and every kind of human being who might live there. My astonishment is only surpassed by my admiration. Philip Pullman, author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy

The three stories in Barcelona Dreaming are connected by ingeniously created threads, but also by a tone that is ironic, observant, alert to the complexity of the characters motives and desires. The book is set in the modern city of Barcelona, its atmosphere invoked with intimate knowledge and a matchless sense of place. Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Master

Elegant and electrifying. Thomson s prose is sparse, yet so highly charged that I couldn t stop reading. I love all his novels but this one is my new favorite. Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature

Praise for Never Anyone But You:

There s so much sheer moxie, prismatic identity, pleasure and danger in these lives...the scenes are tense, particular and embodied...wonderfully peculiar. New York Times Book Review

Sleek, lush...an extraordinary and rollicking tale. Harper s

Taut and absorbing...As with all of Thomson s elegant and troubling novels, Never Anyone But You exerts a menacing but never histrionic power...this quietly passionate coupling of Eros and history lingers on to haunt the darkest recesses of the reader s mind. The Guardian