In the Light of Morning - Couverture souple

Pears, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099559366 ISBN 13 : 9780099559368

Editeur : Windmill Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Tim Pears has made the battle zone of family life in provincial England his own fertile fictional terrain...The novel succeeds in illuminating a pivotal moment in world history, while casting a steady light back on England...Rather like Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, this is an intimate tale of a few individuals poised at a moment when one epoch gives way to another." (Maya Jaggi Guardian)

"[T]he characters are beautifully and economically drawn, and he is excellent on the sights and especially the smells of the landscape – the beauty even of a war-torn land." (The Times)

"Brilliantly nail-biting. Tim Pears tackles the horrors and ambiguity of war with his usual deft observance, in this depiction of a largely forgotten World War II slideshow in Eastern Europe." (Daily Mail)

"Superb ... a thought provoking, lyrical and deeply humane book" (Sunday Business Post)

"Pears’s prose, with its sensuousness and subtlety, is a fine vehicle for the intelligent, unsentimental tale he tells." (Sunday Times)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

May 1944: High above the mountains of occupied Slovenia an aeroplane drops three British parachutists – brash MP Major Jack Farwell, radio operator Sid Dixon, and young academic Lieutenant Tom Freedman.

Greeted upon arrival by a group of Partisans, the men are led off into the countryside. Despite the distant crackle of gunfire, the war feels a long way off for Tom. The Partisans, too, are not what he was expecting – courageous, kind, and alluring, especially Jovan, their commander, and the hauntingly beautiful Marija.

As the enemy’s net begins to tighten, they find evidence of massacres, of a dark and terrible band of men pursuing them. As they stumble their way towards a final, tragic battle, so the relationships within the group begin to fray, with Tom finding himself forced to face up to his deepest, most secret desires.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Windmill Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0099559366
• ISBN 13: 9780099559368
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352