Ruth Padel: Daughters of the Labyrinth

Cover: 9781472156389 | Daughters of the Labyrinth | Ruth Padel | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times

'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the story' Irish Times, Best Books 2021

'Animated by keen imaginative empathy and a strong sense of place, this moving, satisfying, layered novel will transport you to the amethyst Aegean' Daily Mail

This was my home. This harbour and sea. These golden alleys. But the town I grew up in has disappeared.

Broken by the death of her husband, Ri, a successful international artist living in London, returns to her ancestral home of Crete. The Greek island is known for its ancient myth and mass tourism, but when Ri returns she finds a secret, darker history. As the home she left deals with a looming Brexit, and the home she rediscovered grapples with a refugee crisis, Ri confronts her changing identity. Discovering stories from her family's past leaves a permanent mark on her understanding of herself, her relationship to her country, and her art.

Lyrical, unsettling and evocative, Daughters of the Labyrinth explores the power of buried memory and the grip of the past on the present, and questions how well we can ever know our own family.

Über den Autor

Ruth is an award-winning British poet, author of twelve acclaimed poetry collections and a wildlife novel set in India. Her non-fiction includes books on ancient Greek religion and poetry, and the influence of Greek myth on rock music. She is Professor of Poetry at King's College London and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and hr poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The White Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. Awardsinclude First Prize in the National Poetry Competition. Her lifelong links to Crete began as a student, when she worked on a dig for the British School of Archaeology at Knossos. She has sung in Heraklion City Choir, her first collection Summer Snow was called after a chasm in Cretan mountains and one of her tracks on Desert Island Discs was a Cretan folksong. [...]

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781472156389
ISBN-10:	1472156382
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Padel, Ruth
Hersteller:	Little, Brown Book Group
Maße:	195 x 125 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Ruth Padel
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.08.2022
Gewicht:	0,268 kg

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