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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 240 |
| Format | 15,7 x 1,7 x 23,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 275 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781524712389 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52471238UA |
A GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INHERITANCE
One Night. One Fateful Choice. A Constellation of Lives Changed Forever.
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken.
On Division Street, time has moved on. When the Shenkmans arrive a young couple expecting a baby boy it is as if the accident never happened. But when Waldo, the Shenkmans brilliant, lonely son who marvels at the beauty of the world and has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf, now retired and struggling with his wife s decline, past events come hurtling back i n ways no one could ever have foreseen.
In Dani Shapiro s first work of fiction in fifteen years, she returns to the form that launched her career, with a riveting, deeply felt novel that examines the ties that bind families together and the secrets that can break them apart. Signal Fires is a work of haunting beauty by a masterly storyteller.
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: LitHub, BookPage, Library Journal
Signal Fires is an urgent and compassionate meditation on memory, time, and space. Shapiro has created a world that's as wrenching as it is wondrous. Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being
Signal Fires is a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets. Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion
I don t know of anyone who writes about family with the same generous understanding and gem-cut sentences as Dani Shapiro. Signal Fires confirms her as an artist of the highest order. Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
"Wise, deeply perceptive, suffused with light in spite of life's darkness, Dani Shapiro's Signal Fires is an amazing novel. Shapiro inhabits her characters with lucidity and compassion, and renders their ordinary lives transcendent." Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs
[Shapiro s] well-developed characters and their interesting careers seal the deal. Kirkus Reviews
