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Whale Fall (inbunden, eng)
<p><b>'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell<br>'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous pr...
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<p><b>'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell<br>'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm Tóibín<br>An <i>Observer</i> Best Debut of the Year 2024</b><br><br>It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself.
The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh, salt-stung landscape.<br><br>When two anthropologists from the mainland arrive, Manod sees in them a rare moment of opportunity to leave the island and discover the life she has been searching for.
But, as she guides them across the island’s cliffs, she becomes entangled in their relationship, and her imagined future begins to seem desperately out of reach.<br><br><b>Elizabeth O’Connor’s beautiful, devastating debut <i>Whale Fall</i> tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult.</b><br><br>'The quiet cadences of <i>Whale Fall</i> contain a deep melody of loss held and let go It is a gentle, tough story about profound change' - <b>Anne Enright</b></p>
The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh, salt-stung landscape.<br><br>When two anthropologists from the mainland arrive, Manod sees in them a rare moment of opportunity to leave the island and discover the life she has been searching for.
But, as she guides them across the island’s cliffs, she becomes entangled in their relationship, and her imagined future begins to seem desperately out of reach.<br><br><b>Elizabeth O’Connor’s beautiful, devastating debut <i>Whale Fall</i> tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult.</b><br><br>'The quiet cadences of <i>Whale Fall</i> contain a deep melody of loss held and let go It is a gentle, tough story about profound change' - <b>Anne Enright</b></p>
Format | Inbunden |
Omfång | 224 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Pan Macmillan |
Utgivningsdatum | 2024-04-25 |
ISBN | 9781035024728 |
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- Inbunden, 224, Engelska, Pan Macmillan, 2024-04-25, 9781035024728
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- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 224
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Pan Macmillan
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-04-25
- ISBN 9781035024728