Hunters in the Snow - Couverture souple

Hildyard, Daisy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099578883 ISBN 13 : 9780099578888

Editeur : Vintage, 2014

Synopsis

After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather’s farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. The exiled Edward IV lands in England and marches on London for one final attempt to win back the throne; Tsar Peter the Great, implausibly disguised as a carpenter, follows his own retinue around frozen London; the former African slave Olaudah Equiano takes his book-tour down a Welsh coal-mine; and Herbert, Lord Kitchener, mysteriously disappears at sea in 1916.

These are the stories she remembers him telling her, and others too – about medieval miracles and EU agricultural subsidies; old people and fallen kings; homemade fireworks and invented dogs; Arctic ice cores, sunk ships, drowning horses, salt, sperm, carbon and miners. The history of great men loses its way in the stories of ordinary great-grandparents, grandparents and parents, including the historian’s own.

Hunters in the Snow marks the debut of a truly remarkable young writer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daisy Hildyard was born in Yorkshire in 1984 and currently lives in London, where she is studying for a PhD on scientific language. This is her first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099578883
• ISBN 13: 9780099578888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie