Before the Feast - Couverture rigide

Stanišic, Saša

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1782271295 ISBN 13 : 9781782271291

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2015

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Revue de presse :

'A brilliant, quirky entertainment' Kirkus

'A book like few others... a work of art' Die Zeit

'Highly entertaining and full of chutzpah' Die Welt

'Episodic, impressionistic and whimsical... clever and funny' Guardian

'Wild, nonchalant, funny... a great, sad joy'Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

'Switching among styles with a dancing virtuosity... Stani ic makes a dream team with Anthea Bell, who translates with a pitch-perfect ear for every twist and frisk of his German... its sheer versatility of voice and multiplicity of viewpoint mean that this vigil never drags' Independent

'Exceptional... cleverly done, and so mesmerising from the off... beautifully written... thought-provoking and energetic' Big Issue

'In its combination of the fantastic, the menacing and the inexplicable, it reminded me of nothing so much as A Midsummer Night s Dream filtered through the uncanny lens of Welcome to Night Vale Elle Thinks

'Like a Shakespearean comedy... reminded me of nothing so much as A Midsummer Night s Dream filtered through the uncanny lens of Welcome to Night Vale'Elle Thinks

'Offensively gifted... Stanisic [is] some kind of freak genius' --Irish Examiner

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

It's the night before the feast in the village of F�rstenfelde (population: an odd number). The village is asleep. Except for the ferryman - he's dead. And Mrs Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time at night. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells - the only problem is that the bells have gone. A vixen is looking for eggs for her young, and Mr Schramm is discovering more reasons to quit life than smoking.

Someone has opened the doors to the Village Archive, but what drives the sleepless out of their houses is not that which was stolen, but that which has escaped. Old stories, myths and fairy tales are wandering about the streets with the people. They come together in a novel about a long night, a mosaic of village life, in which the long-established and newcomers, the dead and the living, craftsmen, pensioners and noble robbers in football shirts bump into each other. They all want to bring something to a close, in this night before the feast.

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