Melmoth: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Essex Serpent - Couverture souple

Perry, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788160673 ISBN 13 : 9781788160674

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 2019

Synopsis

'Hugely readable and profoundly important ... Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century' Observer, Fiction Book of the Year

'Beautiful, devastating, brilliant' Marian Keyes

'Astonishingly dark ... exquisitely balanced' Francis Spufford

'Richly atmospheric, daring and surprising' Melissa Harrison

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin meets her friend Karel on the street.

Agitated and enthralled, he tells her he has come into possession of a mysterious old manuscript, filled with personal testimonies that take them from 17th-century England to wartime Czechoslovakia, the tropical streets of Manila, and 1920s Turkey. All of them tell of being followed by a tall, silent woman in black, bearing an unforgettable message.

Helen reads its contents with intrigue, but everything in her life is about to change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sarah Perry is the author of Essex Girls, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. She has been the UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence in Prague and a Gladstone's Library writer-in-residence. Her work has been translated into twenty two languages. She lives in Norwich

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From the author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent comes a darkly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788160673
• ISBN 13: 9781788160674
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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