Name: Arctic Summer von Damon Galgut
SKU: 9780857897183
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Arctic Summer Zusammenfassung

Arctic Summer Damon Galgut

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to bear in his remarkable novel.

At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists, his struggle to find a way of living and being, and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation.

Arctic Summer Bewertungen

Could well be one of the finest literary works published this year... Damon Galgut, among the finest living writers, has not only given life to a quiet enigma who suffered in love but looked at the inspiration and need that helped that enigma write six major novels. * Irish Times *
Beautifully written and utterly compelling... A vivid, moving account of the man that makes you want to read all his books again. * The Times *
Galgut is extremely good on Forster's anxieties, his loneliness, his unworldliness... The portrait is beautifully nuanced, a mixture of bold, colourful strokes and delicate little flicks of the brush. * Sunday Times *
With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Mr Galgut has written a beautiful, and at times funny, novel that movingly captures the duality of one of Britain's most thoughtful authors. * Economist *
It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of love, race and politics, seems perfectly suited as a writer... A remarkable, lyrical tribute. * Guardian *
Galgut has so seamlessly incorporated Forster's diaries, letters and novels into his narrative that it is often hard to tell which novelist is which. * Daily Telegraph *
A masterly piece of fiction. Delicate and detailed. * Daily Mail *
A beautifully imagined piece, getting deep inside the mind of a major English novelist. * Mail on Sunday *
Galgut's gifts - of phrasing, of structure, of perception - are on faultless form in these pages... Arctic Summer is a masterpiece. * Sunday Business Post *
How apt that Arctic Summer, a chronicle or a writer's longest journey to complete his masterpiece, also happens to be Galgut's finest book to date. * The Herald (Scotland) *
Preoccupied by varieties of sadness - but is so crisply written, with a deceptive simplicity and directness, that it feels full of affirmations -- Summer picks * Guardian *

Über Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR005600087

ISBN 13

9780857897183

ISBN 10

0857897187

Titel

Arctic Summer Damon Galgut

Autor

Damon Galgut

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Atlantic Books

Datum

20140306

Anzahl der Seiten

368

Preise

Short-listed for FOLIO PRIZE 2014 (UK) Short-listed for WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2015 (UK) Short-listed for SUNDAY TIMES BARRY RONGE FICTION PRIZE 2015 (UK) Short-listed for UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG ENGLISH LITERARY AWARD 2015 (UK)

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