Birchwood

AvJohn Banville

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that famine and unrest stalk the countryside, and that Ireland is ruined too.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-02-11
Mått:130 x 197 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Pan Macmillan
ISBN:9781035083084

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John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the Revolutions, Frames, and Cleave trilogies. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

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Birchwood represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing: it is a novel in which history becomes a rich black comedy full of land agitation and Gothic characters; and a sense of bewilderment at the nature of the universe fills its pages