The Willow King
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2017
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-174-1 (ISBN)
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-174-1 (ISBN)
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In this astonishingly atmospheric novel, Friedenthal enters the bowels of Shakespeare's century to tell the story of anguished modernity, and of the advent of the Age of Enlightenment.
Estonia, at the end of the seventeenth century: Laurentius arrives in the country, accompanied by a rose-ringed parakeet and hounded by melancholy. He has come to study the latest research - on bloodletting, the evil eye, the position of the soul in the body . . . Meanwhile the poor are being devoured by hunger and the city walls of his university town don't keep them out; in his feverish sleep he dreams of a king with a high crown, and his waking life is stalked by paranoia.
Compelling, evocative and beautifully written, The Willow King is an unsettling tale of a time of witchcraft, of public executions and public dissections, when science and the supernatural were intertwined.
Estonia, at the end of the seventeenth century: Laurentius arrives in the country, accompanied by a rose-ringed parakeet and hounded by melancholy. He has come to study the latest research - on bloodletting, the evil eye, the position of the soul in the body . . . Meanwhile the poor are being devoured by hunger and the city walls of his university town don't keep them out; in his feverish sleep he dreams of a king with a high crown, and his waking life is stalked by paranoia.
Compelling, evocative and beautifully written, The Willow King is an unsettling tale of a time of witchcraft, of public executions and public dissections, when science and the supernatural were intertwined.
Meelis Friedenthal is a writer and academic. Born in Estonia in 1973, he specialises in intellectual history, and has taught and conducted research at the universities of Tartu and Göttingen. He has published three novels and several short stories. The Willow King is his second novel, and won the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. Friedenthal has also won the Estonian Science Fiction Prize for his story 'Nerissa'. The Willow King is being translated into twelve languages, and is his first book to appear in English.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Matthew Hyde |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78227-174-0 / 1782271740 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78227-174-1 / 9781782271741 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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