Janet Frame - Böcker

Ansikten i vattnet är Janet Frames mäktiga och gripande dokumentation i romanform av sin mångåriga erfarenhet som intagen på nyzeeländskt mentalsjukhus under 1940- och 50-talen. Återkommande hot om lobotomi, tortyr med elchocker och ständiga föröd...

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One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ...A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging...

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Den nyzeeländska författaren Janet Frame är välkänd för sina romaner och noveller, och kanske främst för sin självbiografiska trilogi som filmades av Jane Campion under titeln En ängel vid mitt bord. Tätt knutet till hennes stora självbiografiska ...

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Vera är modern som väljer att leva som blind. Erlene, hennes dotter, vägrar sedan länge att tala. Edward, fadern, har tagit sin tillflykt i ett avlägset land. Bortom dessa karaktärer arbetar ett medvetande som för länge sedan sprängt alla broar ti...

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Fyra syskon, Teresa, Toby, Francie och Daphne, letar skatter vid soptippen. Det är deras älsklingslekplats, fram till den dag då elden berövar Francie hennes unga liv. Och lämnar de andra åt sina darrande minnen. Barnen i den fattiga familjen With...

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Toby Withers är epileptiker, därför säger folk i hans nyzeeländska hemstad att han inte kan klara sig i världen. Fast besluten att motbevisa dem beger han sig till London för att skriva sin berättelse om Den försvunna stammen. På båten möter han t...

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Ansikten i vattnet är Janet Frames mäktiga och gripande dokumentation i romanform av sin mångåriga erfarenhet som intagen på nyzeeländskt mentalsjukhus under 1940- och 50-talen. Återkommande hot om lobotomi, tortyr med elchocker och ständiga föröd...

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'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life . . . and yet to read her is no more difficult than breathing' Hilary Mantel When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that sh...

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Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose days are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy; Chicks, the baby of the family; and Daphne, whose rich, poetic imaginati...

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'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that i...

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Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose days are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy; Chicks, the baby of the family; and Daphne, whose rich, poetic imaginati...

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All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.'In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore, Mavis Halleton, writer, ventriloquist and gossip, is...

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I'm a short story addict, both reading and writing them, and I always keep hoping for the perfect story.' (Janet Frame to Tim Curnow, January 1984)THE DAYLIGHT AND THE DUST is the most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever publishe...

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'A deeply rewarding and beautiful novel' HILARY MANTEL'The idea of a new novel by Janet Frame is in itself a delight and Towards Another Summer is a joy to read, with all the poise, inventiveness and clarity of her other work' MAGGIE O'FARRELLLife...

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'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life . . . and yet to read her is no more difficult than breathing' Hilary Mantel When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that sh...

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Vera is the mother who has willed herself sightless, Erlene, her daughter, has ceased to speak, and Edward, the husband and father, has taken refuge in a distant land. Beyond this is a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consci...

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This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of The Carpathians, which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989.

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Compiled and edited by Carole Ferrier, a collection of extracts from the fiction, poetry and autobiography of this New Zealand writer, the author of AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and other works.

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Back in print after ten years, this autobiography describes the author's years of incarceration in mental hospitals and her eventual transition to becoming a writer (Bookseller Publications Buyer's Guide)

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Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stor...

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Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stor...

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