A Shout in the Ruins - Couverture rigide

Powers, Kevin

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ISBN 10 : 1473667771 ISBN 13 : 9781473667778

Editeur : Sceptre, 2018

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent. (Andrew Motion Observer)

'Gorgeous, devastating... As in his first novel, The Yellow Birds, Powers details these inhumane acts with elegance, restraint and a refreshing absence of sentimentality. His spare, meticulous sentences lend a perverse beauty to even the most brutal passages of the novel and give immediacy and emotional heft to the ordeals of its characters... lays bare the tremendous suffering on which our country was founded and demands its acknowledgment. But Powers also offers love and grace in these pages, and a prayer for redemption. (New York Times)

A work of historical fiction that is as unflinching an examination of our capacity for cruelty and violence as his debut. . . Powers packs much into a relatively short work. . . there is no mistaking the intensity of his vision and his ability to conjure up scenes that stick in the mind. . . A novel that memorably illustrates not only the ways in which violence breeds further violence but also the unrelenting power of the past to shape the present. (Sunday Times)

Powers's prose is lyrical. . . his evocation of slavery-era Richmond is powerfully achieved. (Siobhan Murphy The Times)

The writing is beautiful and powerful. A Shout in the Ruins is confirmation, if it were needed, that Kevin Powers is a writer of rare talent. (FT)

Ranging across time and following several characters whose lives become entangled by chance, family connection and conflict, Powers returns here - with similar, admirable compression - to themes he took up in his celebrated debut, The Yellow Birds . . . A Shout in the Ruins illuminates an entire lost era. (Laird Hunt Literary Review)

A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one. (Elliot Ackerman, author of Dark at the Crossing)

A daring voyage into and out of the darkest era in American history. (Observer)

One of the chief rewards of this novel is that it speaks very much to the present through the generational interplay of its characters . . . It is told subtly and with great empathy: Powers once again demonstrates the precise eye for imagery and detail that is becoming the hallmark of his work. (Elliot Ackerman TLS)

This troubling, stirring book is informed by Mr Powers's deep understanding of war's complexities, and of how people are broken and shaped by it. (The Economist)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

* One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018 *

'Achingly relevant' - Grazia

'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times

'An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent' - Andrew Motion, Observer

'Contains moments that burn' Daily Mail

A stunning novel about violence, power and love by Kevin Powers, the acclaimed author of The Yellow Birds and winner of both the 2012 Guardian First Book Award and the Hemingway/PEN Award.

A nighttime whipping in a lamplit barn.

A ruined leg tossed onto a pile of discarded limbs.

A hand snuffing out a desperate cry behind a bedroom's locked door.

In A Shout in the Ruins, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.

Written with the same emotional intensity, harrowing realism, and poetic precision that made The Yellow Birds one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in the Ruins cements Powers' place as one of the most important novelists of our time.

'Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth.' - Sarah Johnson, Booklist

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1473667771
• ISBN 13: 9781473667778
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272