In a Land of Paper Gods - Couverture rigide

Mackenzie, Rebecca

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472224191 ISBN 13 : 9781472224194

Editeur : Tinder Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Set in a missionary school in China... carries echoes of Empire of the Sun and The Poisonwood Bible (Observer (2016 Highlights))

Infused with a delicate, melancholy note of nostalgia, Mackenzie's depiction of a bygone world is vividly realised (Independent)

Such a wonderful voice, very funny and hugely moving (Anna James @ The Bookseller)

An evocative and involving novel with a wonderful setting (Woman & Home)

A richly imagined novel that cleverly intertwines two cultures (Daily Mail)

Mackenzie is a self-assured, poetic storyteller... This is a wonderful, special book. I inhaled it (Red)

If you like your novels lyrical but pacy, look out for this beautiful debut (Elle)

An imaginative and touching debut (Good Housekeeping)

A soaring work of the imagination... a beautifully written book, powerfully moving but surprisingly funny, too (Herald)

Rebecca Mackenzie's vigorous prose is original and highly evocative. The untameable beauty of China's Lushan mountain and the dangers that lie beyond are echoed in the dramatic landscapes that Etta must navigate within herself. Her fate will linger in your thoughts long after the story ends (Claire King, author of THE NIGHT RAINBOW)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Jiangxi Province, China, 1941

Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan, celebrated for its temples, capricious mists and plunging ravines, perches a boarding school for the children of British missionaries. As her parents pursue their calling to bring the gospel to China's most remote provinces, ten-year-old Henrietta S. Robertson discovers that she has been singled out for a divine calling of her own.

Etta is quick to share the news with her dorm mates, and soon even Big Bum Eileen is enlisted in the Prophetess Club, which busies itself looking for signs of the Lord's intent. (Hark.) As rumours of war grow more insistent, so the girls' quest takes on a new urgency - and in such a mystical landscape, the prophetesses find that lines between make believe and reality, good and bad, become dangerously blurred. So Etta's pilgrimage begins.

A story of a child far from home and caught between two cultures, In A Land of Paper Gods marries exuberant imagination with sharp pathos, and introduces Rebecca Mackenzie as a striking and original new voice.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tinder Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1472224191
• ISBN 13: 9781472224194
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352