Arctic Summer - Nominiert: FOLIO PRIZE 2014, Nominiert: WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2015, Nominiert: SUNDAY TIMES BARRY RONGE FICTION PRIZE 2015, Nominiert: UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG ENGLISH LITERARY AWAR
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| Verlag | Atlantic Books |
| Auflage | 2015 |
| Seiten | 368 |
| Format | 13 x 19,8 x 2,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 270 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1782391592 |
| EAN | 9781782391593 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78239159UA |
In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of E. M. Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there.
Klappentext:
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2015
Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
University of Johannesburg English Literary Award
Nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize
In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky.
It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster\'s great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to his remarkable novel.
At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain\'s finest novelists - his struggle to find a way of living and being - and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation.
Rezension:
Could well be one of the finest literary works published this year... Damon Galgut, among the finest living writers, has not only given life to a quiet enigma who suffered in love but looked at the inspiration and need that helped that enigma write six major novels. Irish Times
