Held: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 - Anne Michaels - Böcker - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 9781526659118 - 9 november 2023
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Held: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

Anne Michaels

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Held: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces: a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast as the snow falls.

1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living.

But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.

Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.


240 pages

Media Böcker     Inbunden Bok   (Inbunden bok med hårda pärmar och skyddsomslag)
Releasedatum 9 november 2023
ISBN13 9781526659118
Utgivare Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Antal sidor 240
Mått 143 × 224 × 24 mm   ·   354 g

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