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Yvonne Battle-Felton - Remembered, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Remembered

Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2019

Av Yvonne Battle-Felton

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From the Northern Writer's Award Winner comes. . .REMEMBERED iNews BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019'Compares with Toni Morrison's Beloved . . . [Yvonne Battle-Felton's] characters get under your skin' GUARDIAN'Vital, important and humane. Everyone needs to read this book' JENN ASHWORTH'It's haunting and militant and very visceral and compassionate, heart wrenching story and painful to read.' DIANA EVANS 'Deftly explores generational trauma and the nature of enterprise, and gives a perspective on slavery not often explored' CHARLIE BRINKHURST-CUFF'Some books both break your heart and set you free. REMEMBERED will change you.' RACHEL EDWARDS - author of DarlingIt is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning. The last place Spring wants to be is in the rundown, coloured section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice.There're whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window. Some people think it was an accident, others claim that it was his fault, the police are certain that he was part of a darker agenda. Is he guilty? Can they find the truth?All Spring knows is that time is running out. She has to tell him the story of how he came to be. With the help of her dead sister, newspaper clippings and reconstructed memories, she must find a way to get through to him. To shatter the silences that governed her life, she will do everything she can to lead him home.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-02-07
  • Mått: 154 x 232 x 26 mm
  • Vikt: 376 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: John Murray Press
  • ISBN: 9780349700496
  • Översättare: Priscilla Layne
  • Utmärkelser: Long-listed for Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 (UK)
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Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She moved to Maryland and is currently living in Yorkshire, England, with her family. Yvonne holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is an associate teaching professor and the academic director of Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Her debut novel, Remembered, won a Northern Writers' Award in 2017. It was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize.

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Remembered has drawn comparisons with Toni Morrison's Beloved: both are unflinching and haunting in how they address the legacy of the slave trade. Battle-Felton's voice is entirely her own, however, and this book feels vital for our time . . . [this] debut is not an easy read and nor should it be. Fortunate are those of us that only experience such brutality in the pages of a book. Afterwards we emerge more enlightened with our hearts and minds expanded. Remembered will stay with you long after reading

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