Waterland: Introduction by Tim Binding
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
15.10.2013
Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
376
Maße (L/B/H)
21.1/13.1/2.7 cm
Gewicht
472 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-375-71237-1
Graham Swift’s extraordinary masterpiece—a finalist for the Booker Prize—WATERLAND weaves together eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as Greek tragedy into one epic story.
In the flat, watery Fen Country of East Anglia, a passionate history teacher named Tom Crick is being forced into early retirement from the school where he has taught for thirty years. When a student rebelliously questions the value of the subject to which Tom has devoted his life, Tom responds with his own personal retrospective. His story—intertwined with the stories of the local wetlands, the French Revolution, and World War II, among other things—throws light onto the dark circumstances of the current day, revealing how his wife’s tragic youth led to the events surrounding his forced retirement. A monumental tribute to the past, a gripping multigenerational family saga, and a powerful affirmation of the history of self, this exceptional novel illuminates the cycles of time in which we live.
Introduction by Tim Bunding
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