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Synopsis
Four teenagers and a feral cat navigate life in Gorbachev’s USSR, in this tragicomedy set against a backdrop of civilizations in decline. The Girl in the Water has launched the award-winning series Next Year’s Snow, a multigenerational saga about innocence, survival, oppression, and choice at the flashpoints of a madly fractured world.
At the centre of this debut is Nadia, a Soviet girl who witnesses her friend’s near-drowning on a remote northern beach. Nadia is an abstract thinker coming to terms with the harsh realities around her. She is a bookworm, a prankster, a wanderer, and a note-taker. She sees people gambling with life and soul for little apparent gain and wonders what she can do to make a difference. Progressively, her life is pulled apart by her family’s migration to Ukraine, a dubious courtship, the Chernobyl disaster, police surveillance, and an Afghan war.
As Nadia comes of age, she finds that the bonds of family and friendship create an inseparable fate: to rescue one another or to drown.
Winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction
Winner of the 2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards for Outstanding Multicultural Fiction
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À propos de l'auteur
Joseph Howse writes fiction, as well as technical books on computer programming and image analysis. He lives in a Nova Scotian fishing village, where he chats with his cats and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. His debut novel, The Girl in the Water, has won the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, the 2023 IAN Awards for Outstanding Multicultural Fiction, and the 2023 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal for Best Regional Ebook (Fiction). He is currently working on a sequel.
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The Girl in the Water
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Nummist Media Sep 2022, 2022
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Howse, Janet (illustrateur). Neuware - Winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary FictionWinner of the 2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards for Outstanding Multicultural FictionWinner of the 2023 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal for Best Regional Elektronisches Buch (Fiction)Honorable Mention in the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Elektronisches Buch FictionThe Girl in the Water is the story of a multiethnic group of young friends, coming of age in Estonia and Ukraine in the last days of the Soviet Union. Their lives are shaped by an Afghan war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the collapse and legacy of a suffocating society.The novel examines life and choice in the aftermath of trauma and has garnered praise as both a lifelike family drama and a literary statement in the tradition of the Russian classics: 'The author includes emotional, compelling scenes with every character, as each one has been dealt a vastly different hand of cards.' -Audrey Davis, Independent Book Review'Joseph Howse evokes the literary styles of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky . The author has composed a book like Tchaikovsky would a symphony; tight, disciplined, yet bubbling with unspoken passion and near-magical allegory.' -Rob Errera, IndieReader'a captivating story that sheds light on the complexities of human nature in times of great change . A must-read' -Benji Allen, Waikato Independent'wonderfully written' -Chris Reed, NZ Booklovers'quite lovely' -Nicky Walker, Radio New Zealand Nine To NoonScenes of shortwave listening and roaming the hinterlands provide a backdrop to the young characters' search for themselves within a failing civilization that sees non-cooperation and unhappiness as a disease.At the centre of this multilayered story of family, society, and nature is a Soviet girl, Nadia, who, one day on a remote beach, looks up from her book to see that her friend is drowning.Nadia is an abstract thinker growing up in an era of endgames. She is a bookworm, an architect of reckless pranks, a day-and-night wanderer, a compulsive witness, and a note-taker. All around her she sees people quietly gambling with life and soul for little apparent gain. As her illusions unravel, she asks herself, what is to be done The Girl in the Water is a tragicomedy. It is an intricate study of beauty and futility in everyday life and a call for compassion and humour in a cruel world. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781738788651
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