The Ninth Hour - Nominiert: Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, 2017
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 12,9 x 20,0 x 1,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 185 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1408854635 |
| EAN | 9781408854631 |
| Bestell-Nr | 40885463UA |
WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2017
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From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for those who love Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Anne Tyler
On a dim winter afternoon in a Brooklyn tenement, a young Irish immigrant unhooks the oven gas, and inhales. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an ageing nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and unborn child.
This is how Sally comes to grow up in the convent laundry, amidst the crank of the wringer and the hiss of the iron, her universe governed by the strange, kind and mysterious Little Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor.
But although superstition and shame will collude to erase Sally's father's brief existence, his suicide will r everberate through many lives and over many decades. And when she comes of age, Sally will commit her own irrevocable deed, sacrificing her grace at the altar of human love.
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'Beautifully written, heart-wrenching and funny by turns ... deeply vivid and authentic' Sunday Times
Rezension:
Alongside her marvellous descriptions of unbeautiful bodies is an intense lyricism . McDermott is so attentive to atmospheres, glances, the quietest moments that provoke profound shifts in a character's world ... Her new book unfolds without sentimentality or pity, but with a frankness of gaze that elevates her characters rather than diminishes them. Mercy, it seems, doesn't always take the forms we might imagine Molly McCloskey Guardian 20171021
