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Verlag: Canongate Books Mär 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1841956198ISBN 13: 9781841956190
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Henry Molise, a fifty-year-old successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his elderly parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, bricklaying father, Nick, despite being weakened by age and alcoholism, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, ill and devoutly Catholic, still has the power both to comfort and confuse her children.Nick has been offered some well-paid work to build a smokehouse in the hills, and Henry, realising this might be the last chance they have to reconcile things, agrees to lend a hand. What he doesn't appreciate is how much this journey is going to change his view of his father.The Brotherhood of the Grape is vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion, Fante powerfully describes the damage that family can wreak upon us all. 208 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Canongate Books Mär 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1841955744ISBN 13: 9781841955742
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An author in unquestioned control of his vocabulary, his phrases brief but beautifully cadenced.' Daily TelegraphWithout Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. She is just four years old.Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers, the man who was her saviour. Their meeting brings about reappraisals of their respective lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a century earlier.Highly visual and unforgettably sad, Without Blood is a haunting book about damage, longing, memory and forgiveness. Ann Goldstein's superb translation captures Baricco's effortless prose style and gives readers in Britain the opportunity to experience this gem of a novel that has already delighted hundreds of thousands across Europe.'Baricco's delicate, minimalist prose style, full of wistful refrains and subtle rondos, is closer to a haiku than anything in the European literary tradition.'Independent on Sunday'Without Blood is a fable for adults with its twin themes of revenge and redemption and fi erce, haunting imagery. Baricco is the new Hans Christian Andersen.'Daily MailTranslated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein 96 pp. Englisch.