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Aminatta Forna - Hired Man, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Hired Man

Av Aminatta Forna

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Beskrivning
A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna'Supremely masterful' INDEPENDENT'The Hired Man seals her reputation as arguably the best writer of fiction in this field' EVENING STANDARD'Terrific skill and insight' DAILY MAILGost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the windows, glass darkened with dirt, today stands open, and the lively chatter of English voices carries across the fallow fields. Laura and her teenage children have arrived.A short distance away lies the hut of Duro Kolak, who lives alone with his two hunting dogs. As he helps Laura with repairs to the old house, they uncover a mosaic beneath the ruined plaster and, in the rising heat of summer, painstakingly restore it. But Gost is not all it seems; conflicts long past still suppurate beneath the scars.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-03-13
  • Mått: 134 x 281 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 232 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781408843161
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Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and also spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of two novels, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She has also written short stories and essays as well as for radio and television and presented arts magazine and documentary programmes, and was recently appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Aminatta Forna lives in London.@aminattafornahttp://www.aminattaforna.com/

Recensioner i media

Unsettling and supremely masterful novel ... The depth of his character is revealed in every tic of his lonely, ritualised life, and his past is glimpsed in every freighted friendship and casual interaction he has with the men of the town. Through his brooding, bristling machismo, he becomes one of Hemingway’s men – epic in his small, everyman heroism. Every relationship is keenly realised ... The family is sharply observed ... What stands out in all of this is Forna’s near-perfect authorial control. She reveals her story at a pace of measured suspense until it reads like a slow-burn thriller. Her prose quietly grips us by the throat and then tightens its hold. It is storytelling at its most taut, and it leaves Forna less a gifted African voice, more a gifted writer, and one who has, with this book, magnificently realised her literary potential

Betyg & recensioner

3 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.3/5

  1. 5/5 Nina

    Bra, spännande, obehaglig - välskriven.

    Hon är en stor författare redan, tydlig och ärlig och modig. Hon tar upp en problematik som få skriver om idag, enligt mig - vad händer med människors ilska, sorg, hämndlust, vanmakt, ovisshet, när "kriget är över" men människor inte har accepterat, bearbetat, fått hjälp att komma tillbaka till vanliga liv, krigets finns där fast det skall vara "avslutat" - och vad gör det med oss som människor och hur skall vi hantera dessa känslor och läka våra sår?

  2. 4/5 M. G
  3. 4/5 Christina R

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