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The Hired Man
Taschenbuch von Aminatta Forna
Sprache: Englisch

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A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna'Supremely masterful' INDEPENDENT'The Hired Man seals her reputation as arguably the best writer of fiction in this field' EVENING STANDARD'Terrific skill and insight' DAILY MAIL

Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the windows, glass darkened with dirt, today stands open, and the lively chatter of English voices carries across the fallow fields. Laura and her teenage children have arrived.

A short distance away lies the hut of Duro Kolak, who lives alone with his two hunting dogs. As he helps Laura with repairs to the old house, they uncover a mosaic beneath the ruined plaster and, in the rising heat of summer, painstakingly restore it. But Gost is not all it seems; conflicts long past still suppurate beneath the scars.
A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna'Supremely masterful' INDEPENDENT'The Hired Man seals her reputation as arguably the best writer of fiction in this field' EVENING STANDARD'Terrific skill and insight' DAILY MAIL

Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the windows, glass darkened with dirt, today stands open, and the lively chatter of English voices carries across the fallow fields. Laura and her teenage children have arrived.

A short distance away lies the hut of Duro Kolak, who lives alone with his two hunting dogs. As he helps Laura with repairs to the old house, they uncover a mosaic beneath the ruined plaster and, in the rising heat of summer, painstakingly restore it. But Gost is not all it seems; conflicts long past still suppurate beneath the scars.
Über den Autor
Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her books have won multiple prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Book Award, and been shortlisted for many others, among them the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Neustadt Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Dublin International IMPAC Award. In 2014 Forna won the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, an award from Yale University in honour of an author's body of work.

Forna has acted as judge for a number of literary awards, including the International Man Booker. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. In 2017, she was awarded an OBE.
Zusammenfassung
Her novel Ancestor Stones was published in several languages, nominated for the International IMPAC Award and selected by the Washington Post as one of the most important books of 2006
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: 293 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408843161
ISBN-10: 1408843161
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Forna, Aminatta
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 198 x 130 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Aminatta Forna
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.03.2014
Gewicht: 0,249 kg
Artikel-ID: 105591333
Über den Autor
Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her books have won multiple prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Book Award, and been shortlisted for many others, among them the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Neustadt Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Dublin International IMPAC Award. In 2014 Forna won the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, an award from Yale University in honour of an author's body of work.

Forna has acted as judge for a number of literary awards, including the International Man Booker. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. In 2017, she was awarded an OBE.
Zusammenfassung
Her novel Ancestor Stones was published in several languages, nominated for the International IMPAC Award and selected by the Washington Post as one of the most important books of 2006
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: 293 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408843161
ISBN-10: 1408843161
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Forna, Aminatta
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 198 x 130 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Aminatta Forna
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.03.2014
Gewicht: 0,249 kg
Artikel-ID: 105591333
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