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Mothering Sunday von Graham Swift
A Romance

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Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 160 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Verlag: Simon&Schuster UKScribner UK
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781471155246

'Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... It may just be Swift's best novel yet'ObserverThe Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and WaterlandNow a major film starring Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Odessa Young and Josh O'Connor (The Crown), scripted by Alice Birch (Normal People)<br><br>'Exquisite. . .Mothering Sundayshows love, lust and ordinary decency straining against the bars of an unjust English caste system'Kazuo Ishiguro<br>It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday.<br><br>How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?<br><br>Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades,Mothering Sundayhas at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.<br>Praise forMothering Sunday:<br><br>'Mothering Sundayis a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... Itmay just be Swift's best novel yet'The Observer<br><br>'Dazzling . . . a vanished world is resurrected with superb immediacy . . .wonderfully accomplished'Sunday Times<br><br>'Stunning . . . It is about the most perfect novel you could wish to read'The Guardian<br><br>'From start to finish Swift's is a novel ofstylish brillianceand quiet narrative verve . . . Swift is a writer at the very top of his game'Evening Standard<br><br>From the Booker-winning author ofLast OrdersandWaterlandcomes a long-awaited new novel.'Mothering Sundayis bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift's small fictionfeels like a masterpiece'TheGuardian<br><br>'Mastery and resonance. . . It's one of the novel's great strengths to be able to shift with such agility between focus scene and lifetime recollection . . . the languid, blissful minutes of March 30, 1924 seem to contain all the succeeding decades'Times Literary Supplement<br><br>'Adazzlingread: sexy, stylish, subversive'Herald Scotland<br><br>'Ajewel of a book, a subtle, erotically charged novella suspended between past and future'Hermione Lee<br><br>'Awork of goldfrom the subtle pen of the great Graham Swift'Le Monde<br><br>'With this novelhe captures what it means to be alive'Der Spiegel<br><br>'Anexquisitenovella of love and loss . . . a short yet powerful and intricately layered work . . . every sentence counting andnot a word out of place'The Australian1Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of eleven novels,two collections of short stories, including the highly acclaimed England and Other Stories, and of Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. His most recent novel, Mothering Sunday, became an international bestseller and won The Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels were made into films. His work has appeared in over thirty languages.

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