The Wolf Border - Couverture souple

Hall, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571299555 ISBN 13 : 9780571299553

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

[T]he odd sense lingers of Hall as a well-kept secret. If you're currently revelling in your membership of the initiate, however, be warned: her new novel looks set to blow the lid off. (Guardian)

[A] thoughtful, gripping and utterly humane exploration of generation, parenthood, and the responsibility that connects individuals, both human and animal, to one another ... For sheer good writing and intelligence of execution, you may not read a better book this year. (Quadrapheme)

It is a compelling, psychological drama ... [Hall] has a golden touch, texturing her pages with rich metaphor and lyrical prose. (Economist)

[A] stylish, intelligent and a cracking read ... Hall is at her best when she deals with her outlandish scenario in a calm and unsensational manner. She writes with luminous precision about pregnancy and motherhood ... Her close observations of wolf behaviour and of Cumbrian weather are wonderful. (Sunday Times)

This is a book overflowing with life and history, propelled by a writer who engages all the reader's senses. (Telegraph)

[J]oyous fragility characterises The Wolf Border ... which weighs sense and sensuality, order and chaos, with sumptuous grace. Hall writes gorgeously about small moments ... But her plot too is gripping, propelled by some intriguing mysteries, a couple of conspiracies and a pulse-racing set-piece in which Rachel juggles baby, wolves, brother and vocation. (Independent)

Hall is an outstanding writer and this is largely a magnificent novel ...spine-tingling ... (Metro)

Hall's alert, focused prose generates a sense of building exhilaration as personal, political and physical boundaries break down ... [A] reminder that real power - both human and animal - operates on ancient instinct: beyond the rules of the herd and border blind. (Spectator)

Beautiful and quite stunning. (Mail on Sunday)

Centuries after the British wolf's extinction, an eccentric Cumbrian earl plans its return. But what sounds like a Gothic fantasy is, in Hall's hands, a thrilling tale of politics and power ... Compulsively absorbing and masterfully plotted, it confirms Hall as one of our finest fiction writers. (Daily Mail)

Vivid and visceral. (The Times)

[W]henever the wolves stalk the page, their alien intelligence delivers an uncanny jolt ... The Wolf Border ranks among the finest meditations on motherhood that I have ever read ... If Hall gives us the wolf as an archetype of intuition and pure nature, then one could almost read The Wolf Border as a modern werewolf myth. It is the story of a human transforming and connecting with something terrifying, animal and true. (The National)

[A] graceful, visceral, utterly compelling read. --Sunday Express

Ghostlike, yellow eyes glimmering, lean, grey flanks rippling, they lope and streak through the heather in the pages of this absorbing novel so thrillingly and so metaphorically that you could say that Hall has created the ultimate Wolf Hall. --Scotland Herald

[A] very serious novelist hitting her stride. --Irish Independent

Quatrième de couverture :

The award-winning author of The Electric Michelangelo returns with her first novel in nearly six years, a literary masterpiece about the reintroduction of wild wolves into the United Kingdom.

She hears them howling along the buffer zone, a long harmonic.
One leading, then many.
At night there is no need to imagine, no need to dream.
They reign outside the mind.

Rachel Caine is a zoologist working in Nez Perce, Idaho, as part of a wolf recovery project. She spends her days, and often nights, tracking the every move of a wild wolf pack—their size, their behavior, their howl patterns. It is a fairly solitary existence, but Rachel is content.

When she receives a call from the wealthy and mysterious Earl of Annerdale, who is interested in reintroducing the grey wolf to Northern England, Rachel agrees to a meeting. She is certain she wants no part of this project, but the Earl's estate is close to the village where Rachel grew up, and where her aging mother now lives in a care facility. It has been far too long since Rachel has gone home, and so she returns to face the ghosts of her past.

The Wolf Border is a breathtaking story about the frontier of the human spirit, from one of the most celebrated young writers working today.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571299555
• ISBN 13: 9780571299553
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448