The Night Watch - Nominiert: Nibbies 2007, Nominiert: James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2007, Nominiert: Orange Prize 2006, Nominiert: Man Booker Prize 2006, Ausgezeichnet: Stonewall Writer of the Year 2006
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| Verlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Auflage | 2007 |
| Seiten | 512 |
| Format | 19,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1844082415 |
| EAN | 9781844082414 |
| Bestell-Nr | 84408241UA |
Die Geschichte von vier Menschen in London während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, drei Frauen und ein junger Mann mit dunklen Geheimnissen, persönlichen Dämonen aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, verwickelt, tragisch, erotisch und hoch spannend. Ein brillanter Roman.
Kurzbeschreibung:
Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century.
Klappentext:
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize
\'Brilliantly done... the period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story. It\'s a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads\' Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller.
This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching . . . Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret . . . Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover . . . Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances . . .
Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.
Rezension:
The Night Watch is a truthful, lovely book that needs no conjuring tricks to make you want to read it again Philip Hensher Observer
