Damian Barr: You Will Be Safe Here

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Cover: 9781408886052 | You Will Be Safe Here | Damian Barr | Taschenbuch | XVIII | Englisch

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An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the YearAn Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the London Magazine Debut Fiction Prize 2020Longlisted for HWA Debut Crown 2020'Beautifully written and emotionally devastating' Daily MailA beautiful and heart-breaking story set in South Africa where two mothers - a century apart - must fight for their sons, unaware their fates are inextricably linked.

Orange Free State, 1901. At the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred can only watch as the British burn their farm. The polite invaders cart them off to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp promising you will be safe here.

Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old Willem is an outsider who just wants to be left alone with his Harry Potter books and Britney, his beloved pug. Worried he's turning out soft, his Ma and her new boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Camp, where they 'make men out of boys.' Guaranteed.

The red earth of the veldt keeps countless secrets whether beaten by the blistering sun or stretching out beneath starlit stillness. But no secret can stay buried forever.

Über den Autor

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the Big Issue and High Life and often appears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. You Will Be Safe Here is his debut novel. Damian Barr lives in Brighton.

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Zusammenfassung

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME
The stunning and shocking debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me. Set in South Africa You Will Be Safe Here explores legacies of abuse, redemption and the strength of the human spirit

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	352
Inhalt:	XVIII 334 S.
ISBN-13:	9781408886052
ISBN-10:	1408886057
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	326206
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Barr, Damian
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	198 x 132 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Damian Barr
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.04.2020
Gewicht:	0,25 kg

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