H is for Hawk

• Utgivningsdatum: 2015-02-26
• Mått: 129 x 199 x 21 mm
• Vikt: 244 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 320
• Förlag: Vintage Publishing
• ISBN: 9780099575450
• Utmärkelser: Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK)

• Sanna berättelser

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.

This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent.

8 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.1/5

1. 3/5 M. G 2015-08-26

   Grieving her father, she isolates herself and decides to get a hawk. In his memory,
   to occupy herself and not feel the terrible loss.
   Then comes her obssession for T,H.White's books,his life, his tormented, sensitive soul
   and his hawk.
   She recurs to him constantly (almost half of the book is White's texts) she has a behov
   to get confirmation from others, tries to explain herself, to make excuses...
   Her descriptions of the nature are nice but repetitive (too many dead rabbits... )
   "To tame" is to break, to subdue, and it is never perfect, not with wild animals and not
   with past traumas and sufferings..

2. 5/5 Eleanor R 2022-06-15
3. 4/5 Axel 2017-12-18
4. 5/5 Elisabeth W 2017-01-24
5. 5/5 Ebba K 2016-08-25