Christmas in Austin: From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives - Couverture souple

Markovits, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 057133976X ISBN 13 : 9780571339761

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2020

Synopsis

'Intricately, intimately written, with some wonderful prose and delicate dialogue.' Guardian
'A loving and nuanced portrait of a family's myriad functions.' The New Yorker
'Utterly absorbing.' Financial Times
'A tour de force.' Sunday Times

A Luminous family saga from one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists

When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan wants to become a federal judge. Susie's husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and (once-married) boss to meet her family. Paul has broken up with Dana, mother of their son Cal. But their parents have plans, too, and Liesel, the materfamilias, has invited Dana and Cal to stay, hoping to bring them back together. As the week unfolds, each of the Essingers has to confront the tensions and conflicts between old families and new.

Rich, intimate, and deeply perceptive, Christmas in Austin beautifully explores the deep-rooted division between the world we grow up in, and the life we make for ourselves.

'A subtle, complex, grown-up study of a modern family. There's something pleasurable and astute to be found on every page.' Literary Review

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of many novels, including Either Side of Winter, You Don't Have To Live Like This, and Christmas in Austin. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among others. In 2013 Granta selected him as one of their Best of Young British Novelists and in 2015 he won the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 057133976X
• ISBN 13: 9780571339761
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Faber & Faber; https://www.faber.co.uk/; ; The Bindery; London; EC1N 8HN; Royaume-Uni
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