Peacetime - Couverture souple

Edric, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552772062 ISBN 13 : 9780552772068

Editeur : Black Swan, 2003

Synopsis

A stunningly atmospheric and powerful new novel set in 1946 at The Wash on the Fenland coast.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (1985 James Tait Black Prize winner), A New Ice Age (1986 runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize), A Lunar Eclipse, The Earth Made of Glass, Elysium, In Desolate Heaven, The Sword Cabinet, The Book of the Heathen (shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award) and Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002). He is also the author of the widely-acclaimed Song Cycle triology, which comprises Cradle Song, Siren Song and Swan Song.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Late summer 1946: the Wash on the Fenland coast. Into a suspicious and isolated community comes James Mercer, employed in the demolition of gun platforms. He befriends the wife and daughter of Lynch, a soldier soon to be released from military gaol. He also finds himself drawn to Mathias, a German prisoner with no desire to return home, and Jacob, a Jewish concentration camp survivor.

Lynch's return threatens violence; and in a place where nothing has changed for decades, where peacetime feels no different to wartime, Mercer finds himself powerless to prevent events quickening to their violent and unexpected conclusion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552772062
• ISBN 13: 9780552772068
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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