Anna Kavan - Böcker

»Romanen [har] en närmast profetisk dimension. Kanske är den ännu mer aktuell idag än när den först kom ut.« | IDA THERÉN, SVD » Is är ett magnifikt mästarprov i hallucinatorisk bildmagi parad med suggestiv språkbriljans.« | AASE BERG, DN Is utspe...

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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever...

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'There is nothing else quite like Ice' Doris Lessing Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan's masterwork follows one man's pursuit of a mysterious silver-haired girl to the ends of the earth; t...

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'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bl...

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'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. BallardNo one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this ble...

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Peter Owen Publishers are proud to announce the publication of a previously unpublished novel.Set in an unspecified but eerily familiar time and landscape, Guilty is narrated by Mark. He begins the novel as a young boy whose father has just return...

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First published in 1945, the stories collected under the title I Am Lazarus are a brilliant summation of the war experiences of Anna Kavan in Blitz-era London, working among invalided soldiers at a 'military neurosis centre' in Mill Hill. Kavan's ...

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The mother of 'Anna' in this novel dies in childbirth and she brought up by her father and a governess, in a remote Pyrenean village. When she is thirteen, her father shoots himself and she Is adopted by a rich, beautiful and ruthless aunt who sto...

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The Parson was not published in Anna Kavan's lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form. Thought to have been written between the mid 50s and early 60s, it presages, through its undertones and imagery, some of Kavan's last and most end...

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largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, Sleep Has His House startled with its strangeness in 1948. Today it is one of Anna Kavan's most acclaimed books. A daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation, Sleep Has His H...

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First published sixty years ago, Asylum Piece today ranks as one of the most extraordinary and terrifying evocations of human madness ever written. This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of t...

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Marooned in a country house in an ugly manufacturing town is an old vicarage of which expensive improvements have been undertaken. The house sits in the middle of the town where traffic buzz is accentuated by occasional rumbling of passing trams. ...

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'A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of dislocation' - Jeff VanderMeer 'One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future' - New Yo...

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»Romanen [har] en närmast profetisk dimension. Kanske är den ännu mer aktuell idag än när den först kom ut.« | IDA THERÉN, SVD » Is är ett magnifikt mästarprov i hallucinatorisk bildmagi parad med suggestiv språkbriljans.« | AASE BERG, DN Is utspe...

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Una nueva era glaciar se extiende por el mundo congelándolo todo a su paso y provocando guerras y migraciones masivas donde aún no ha sumido la vida en su silencio helado. Avanzando a contracorriente de la muchedumbre que huye desesperadamente d...

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