The Man in the Wooden Hat - Nominated for the Independent Booksellers Award 2011 and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011
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| Verlag | Little |
| Auflage | 2014 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 19,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 230 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Old Filth 2 |
| ISBN-10 | 0349139482 |
| EAN | 9780349139487 |
| Bestell-Nr | 34913948EA |
Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy.
'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig
'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit' Patrick Gale
Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficul ty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . .
How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.
Rezension:
A supremely literary and youthful book Sunday Times
