Colony (eBook)

Audrey Magee (Autor)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
208 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-36762-7 (ISBN)

Infos

AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 'Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS 'Luminous.' Observer 'I utterly ADORED it.' MARIAN KEYES He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea. Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve. But the people who live on this rock - three miles long and half-a-mile wide - have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. Soft summer days pass, and the islanders are forced to question what they value and what they desire. As the autumn beckons, and the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning. ''Beautifully written.' STELLA, The Telegraph 'The Colony contains multitudes. . . with much of it just visible on the surface, like the flicker of a smile or a shark in the water.' The Times 'The Colony is a novel about big, important things.' Financial Times 'Beautiful, haunting and incredibly powerful book.' FÍONA SCARLETT

AUDREY MAGEE was born in Ireland and lives in Wicklow. Her first novel, The Undertaking, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, for France's Festival du Premier Roman and for the Irish Book Awards. It was also nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The Undertaking has been translated into ten languages and is being adapted for film.

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AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS'Luminous.' Observer'I utterly ADORED it.' MARIAN KEYESHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea. Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve. But the people who live on this rock - three miles long and half-a-mile wide - have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. Soft summer days pass, and the islanders are forced to question what they value and what they desire. As the autumn beckons, and the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning. ''Beautifully written.' STELLA, The Telegraph'The Colony contains multitudes. . . with much of it just visible on the surface, like the flicker of a smile or a shark in the water.' The Times'The Colony is a novel about big, important things.' Financial Times'Beautiful, haunting and incredibly powerful book.' FIONA SCARLETT

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: AD Miller Snowdrops • Colm Toibin the Magician The Master The South • Lisa McInerney The Glorious Heresies • Piranesi • Raven Leilani Luster • Sarah Moss the Fell Summerwater • Small Things Like These Claire Keegan Foster • Small Things Like These Claire Keegan Foster AJ Pearce Jessie Burton Hanya Yanagihara To Paradise • The Undertaking Women's Prize Shortlist Piranesi Unsettled Ground Transcendent Kingdom How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
• ISBN-10: 0-571-36762-3 / 0571367623
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-36762-7 / 9780571367627