Light Perpetual (eBook)

Francis Spufford (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
368 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-33650-0 (ISBN)

Infos

** Includes the first chapter from the hugely anticipated new novel from Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz. ** 'Dazzling.' The Times 'Exceptional.' Guardian 'Brilliant.' Observer 'Extraordinary.' Financial Times 'A miracle.' Wall Street Journal *Winner of the RSL Encore Award* *Longlisted for the Booker Prize* November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience all the unimaginable changes of the twentieth century. Because maybe there are always other futures. Other chances. From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual is a story of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, it is a sweeping and intimate celebration of the gift of life.

Francis Spufford is the author of three novels and five highly-praised works of non-fiction which are most frequently described by reviewers as either 'bizarre' or 'brilliant', and usually as both. His debut work of fiction was the historical novel Golden Hill, whichwon the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for four others. His second novel, Light Perpetual, was awarded the Encore Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. His third novel, the alternative history Cahokia Jazz, was recognised by the Science Fiction community when it was awarded the Sidewise Award in 2023. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives in Essex.

Rezensionen

A brilliant, attention-grabbing, capacious experiment with fiction.

Dazzling . Intimate, absorbing.

Radiant with hope and grace and courage . . . I loved it.

Powerful . heartbreaking . [a] boundlessly rich novel.

This novel simply excels in the stop-time rapture of noticing.

A tender, endlessly inventive novel.

The novel's overarching feat is to resurrect with marvellous vitality not just its central five figures, but six transformative decades of London life.

Spufford is a tremendously varied and surprising writer ... With exceptional care [he] catches the voices and hopes of five not-dead working-class south Londoners, and the people who change and shape them.

Dazzling ... [Spufford is] one of the finest prose stylists of his generation. If his stories grip, his sentences practically glow.

Moving and effortlessly absorbing.

A glorious act of literary resurrection.

A vivid and moving tour through 20th-century Britain.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.2.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: backroom boys • bestseller books 2021 • C. S. Lewis • days without end • Golden Hill • I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination • I May Be Some Time The Child That Books Built Backroom Boys Red Plenty Unapologetic • Klara and the Sun • red plenty • reservoir 13 • Sebastian Barry • Shuggie Bain • Sorrow and Bliss • the child that books built • The Promise • The Stone Table • unapologetic • unsettled ground • West
• ISBN-10: 0-571-33650-7 / 0571336507
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33650-0 / 9780571336500