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| Verlag | Granta Books |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 224 |
| Format | 12,8 x 1,4 x 19,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 162 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781783789337 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78378933UA |
Lizzie Benson, Amateur-Psychologin und Bibliothekarin mit Hang zu apokalyptischen Gedanken, soll die Fanpost zum alarmistischen Podcast »Hölle und Hochwasser« beantworten. So stürzt sie sich in die Auseinandersetzung mit besorgten Linken, die die Klimakatastrophe kommen sehen, ebenso wie mit den Ultrakonservativen und deren Sorge um den Untergang der westlichen Zivilisation. Wie aber, fragt Lizzie sich immer häufiger, kann sie ihren privaten Garten wässern, wenn die ganze Welt in Flammen steht?
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and political turbulence.
Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.
