H is for Hawk - The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner. Ausgezeichnet: Costa Biography Award 2015. Ausgezeichnet: Samuel Johnson Prize, 2014. Ausgezeichnet: Costa Biography Award, 2015. No
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2015 |
| Seiten | 320 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,8 x 2,1 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 261 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099575450 |
| EAN | 9780099575450 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09957545EA |
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER
'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times
Discover the number one bestselling phenomenon that is a powerful and profound mediation on grief expressed through the trials of training a goshawk.
__WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR__
__ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION__
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.
H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.
__SEL ECTED BY CARIAD LLOYD ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS__
'This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration' Andrew Motion
'It just sings. I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times
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This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent. Andrew Motion
