Golden Child (eBook)

Claire Adam (Autor)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-33983-9 (ISBN)

Infos

WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2020 WINNER OF BARNES & NOBLE'S DISCOVER NEW WRITERS PRIZE ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'So hard to put down.' Daily Mail 'The work of a master . . . tender, ravishing, shattering.' Guardian 'Startling . . . Remarkable.' Economist One father. Two sons. An impossible choice. When thirteen-year-old Paul doesn't return home one afternoon, even his twin brother, Peter, doesn't know where he is. So their father, Clyde, must set out into the dark Trinidadian bush with a torch, to search for him on foot. And when the reasons for Paul's disappearance become clear, Clyde will be faced with a terrible decision. How does a father choose between his children? How does he weigh up what each one is worth? Which one is the golden child?

Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London with her husband and two children. Her first novel Golden Child won multiple prizes and was named one of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'.

Autor

Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad. She read Physics at Brown University and later took an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she gained a distinction. She lives in London.

Rezensionen

'This accomplished and artfully restrained novel won the Desmond Elliott prize for debut fiction. It's a sort of morality tale set in the recent past on the author's home island of Trinidad. Clyde, a petrochemical worker, has 13-year-old twin sons, Peter and Paul. Life is hard, crime is rife and opportunities are rare, but Peter, the golden child, has rare academic talent. Clyde sets out to earn as much as possible to get Peter off the island and into an Ivy League university. Then Paul goes missing - and the family face an awful dilemma.'

Partly a fable about choices and children; partly a sensual immersion into life in Trinidad; and wholly a bracing, brave and wise corrective to Western sentimentality about poverty and migration, I was enthralled, appalled and finally very moved by this story.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: caribbean fiction • Desmond Elliott Prize • missing child • Port of Spain • Preti Taneja • Prize winning fiction • Sarah Jessica Parker • Trinidad and Tobago • V. S. Naipaul
• ISBN-10: 0-571-33983-2 / 0571339832
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33983-9 / 9780571339839