Daniel Mason – författare

Djupt inne i New Englands skogar står ett ensligt hus. Genom seklerna passerar män och kvinnor genom dess rum – drivna av begär, hemligheter och drömmar. Allt medan skogens träd, växter och djur tyst vakar, minns och förändras. En kvinna som flytt slaveriet, en major som blivit besatt av pomologi, en åldrad ungmö som tvingas ta till yxan, en amatörhistoriker som söker upprättelse, ett nygift par. En konstnär skriver brev, en läkare för journal, någon skriver ner historien i marginalen på en Bibel. Det grävs, planteras, skrattas, svettas, älskas och mördas med samma frenesi som skalbaggarna som sprider smitta i de omgivande almarna. Och sedan börjar allt om igen: ljudet, svirrandet, världens vrål, frör som gror.

En polyfon skröna om världens gång och skogarna i norr. Asken och boken, strimlönnen, rödeken, hemlocken, mattlummern, strutbräknarna, bergslejonet, vandringsduvorna . . .

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries-"a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic" (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.

"With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell's fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason's bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that's on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders."-San Francisco Chronicle

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Boston Globe, NPR, Chicago Public Library, The Star Tribune, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bookreporter

When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave-only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister con man, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: As the inhabitants confront the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.

This magisterial and highly inventive novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason brims with love and madness, humor and hope. Following the cycles of history, nature, and even language, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we're connected to our environment, to history, and to one another. It is not just an unforgettable novel about secrets and destinies, but a way of looking at the world that asks the timeless question: How do we live on, even after we're gone?

🍃 A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. 🍃 ''North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal'' Maggie O''FarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,''This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason''s genius'' Washington PostA SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND''Dazzling . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat . . . Brave and original . . . intimate and epic, playful and serious'' GuardianIS HOME TO RUNAWAYS AND VISIONARIES, INSEPARABLE TWINS, A LOVELORN PAINTER, A DESPERATE MOTHER AND A RUTHLESS CON-MAN.''It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale'' Sunday TimesIT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD.''North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers'' The Times

🍃 ''THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER'' Mick Herron 🍃A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICKFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS

''This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes''Guardian

''Very FUNNY . . . a PERFECT SUMMER ESCAPE . . . as tasty and oddly shaped as an organic apple''Financial Times

''Mason deftly delivers larks aplenty, POIGNANCY, gentle satire and some top-tier farce. Be warned that the latter may cause you to spontaneously erupt with mirth in public places. This book DISPELS GLOOM: go for it''Irish Times

''There''s genuine ENCHANTMENT in this earthy tale of city folk transplanted to rural New England . . . It''s a WARM and delightfully whimsy free take on fables and family'' Mail on Sunday

''A CHARMING book about ambition, marriage and country living''Sunday Times Style

''VIRTUOSIC'' R4 Front Row

''LYRICAL and JOYFUL'' Sarah Jessica Parker

''Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason''s prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people'' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist

''A book to make the world feel a little LIGHTER, a little warmer'' Ron CharlesMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he''s become a disappointment to his family.

So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.

But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate''s, words, ''a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere''. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.

🍃 A FAMILY''S NEW BEGINNING. THE LOCAL''S OLDEST LEGEND. 🍃

Praise for Daniel Mason ''A virtuoso'' Mail on Sunday''Has the born storyteller''s gift'' Daily Mail''Genius'' Washington Post''Brave and original'' Guardian ''Never fails to surprise and delight'' Sunday Times''Teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters'' The Times ''Shows us what is possible when a writer lets his hair down'' Financial Times