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Lädt ... Mothering Sunday : a romance (Original 2016; 2016. Auflage)von Graham Swift
Werk-InformationenMothering Sunday von Graham Swift (2016)
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Graham Swift's slim, incantatory new book is one of those deceptively spare tales (like Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending) that punch well above their weight. Mothering Sunday, more novella than novel, zeroes in on a time of seismic change in English society and a turning point in the life of a woman who against all odds becomes a famous author. Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know: “All the scenes. All the scenes that never occur, but wait in the wings of possibility.” It may just be Swift’s best novel yet. Comparisons will be made with Ian McEwan’s controversially Booker-shortlisted On Chesil Beach, at 166 pages marginally longer than Mothering Sunday. Both narratives share the focus on a single pivotal moment and its consequences, on intimacy as hazardous territory, on Englishness and on the unknowableness of others. But where On Chesil Beach feels like a meditation under a low grey sky, Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
"From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then opens to reveal the whole life of a remarkable woman. Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, orphaned at birth, has worked as a maid at one English country estate since she was sixteen. And for almost all of those years she has been the secret lover to Paul Sheringham, the scion of the estate next door. On an unseasonably warm March afternoon, Jane and Paul will make love for the last time--though not, as Jane believes, because Paul is about to be married--and the events of the day will alter Jane's life forever. As the narrative moves back and forth from 1924 to the end of the century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, remembers--deepens with every beautifully wrought moment. Her story is one of profound self-discovery and through her, Graham Swift has created an emotionally soaring and deeply affecting work of fiction"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden.
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Viele Jahrzehnte später blickt sie zurück und erzählt: von einer Tragödie und zugleich einer wundersamen Entfaltung. Schwebend verschränkt Swift Gegenwart und Vergangenheit, erzählt fein und makellos von einem Leben, in dem alle Grenzen bedeutungslos wurden. Schillernd, unerhört und sinnlich.