Where My Heart Used to Beat - Couverture souple

Faulks, Sebastian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0091936845 ISBN 13 : 9780091936846

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2015

Synopsis

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally - unforgettably - back into the trenches of the Western Front. The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks' fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks' most remarkable book yet.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

‘This is a terrific novel, humming with ideas, knowing asides, shafts of sunlight, shouts of laughter and moments of almost unbearable tragedy’ Sunday Telegraph

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and worst the twentieth century has to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.

‘an ambitious exploration of memory and happiness…Hendricks is a strangely compelling and likeable character’ The Times

His story takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love affair that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally back into the trenches of the Western Front.

‘that rare book, a page-turning read that also has a significant intellectual and emotional charge’ Sunday Express

But his host and antagonist, Alexander Periera, is determined that Robert will learn what separates his memories from the truth.

‘Faulks returns to his favourite theme: the loss inherent in the gap between the life we have lived – and the one we might have had. It’s that difference that tugs at the heartstrings. Faulks just gets better and better with every book.’ Daily Mail

Sebastian Faulks is the author of ten novels, including Birdsong, Human Traces, Engleby, On Green Dolphin Street and A Week in December.

Quatrième de couverture :

On a small island off the south coast of France, an established British physician and author, Robert, finds himself unable to escape memories of his involvement in the allied forces' World War II "Italian Campaign," and of a woman he met then. When he is enlisted to write a biography of an older physician, Dr. Pereira, a renowned specialist in dementia and memory loss who had once come close to a cure for psychosis, Robert, at first, welcomes the distraction. But as Robert begins to interview his subject, it becomes clear that Pereira knows more about his interlocutor than expected-and knows things that Robert, in his recounting to the reader, may not be so eager to reveal. Crackling with surprises and ambiguities, Where My Heart Used to Beat is a powerfully affecting narrative that sweeps through the madnesses of the 20th century and brilliantly unravels the coil of one man's intertwined losses and desires.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0091936845
• ISBN 13: 9780091936846
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336