Häftad, Engelska, 2015
H is for Hawk
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Beskrivning
Discover the memoir that inspired the major new film starring Claire Foy and Brendan GleesonThe hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. An instant international bestseller and prize-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising a goshawk has soared into the hearts of millions of readers. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human discover the pain and beauty of being alive.H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying masterpiece on grief, memory, taming and untaming, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.'An absolute classic of nature writing’ Guardian 'It just sings. I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon‘One of the best grief books ever written’ Cariad Lloyd
Produktinformation
- 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)
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Betyg & recensioner
8 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.1/5
- 3/5 M. G
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.. - 5/5 Eleanor R
- 4/5 Axel
- 5/5 Elisabeth W
- 5/5 Ebba K