The Swimmer - Couverture souple

Tearne, Roma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007301596 ISBN 13 : 9780007301591

Editeur : William Collins, 2010

Synopsis

A gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.

Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer.

Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application, he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior and theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance, defying both boundaries and cultures – and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Roma Tearne arrived with her parents in Britain from Sri Lanka at the age of ten and trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. For nearly twenty years her work as a painter, installation artist, filmmaker and novelist has dealt with traces of history and memory in public and private spaces.

Roma’s first novel, Mosquito, was published by HarperCollins in March 2007. She is married with three children and lives in Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Collins
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007301596
• ISBN 13: 9780007301591
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible