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Ancestry Simon Mawer

Ancestry von Simon Mawer

Ancestry Simon Mawer

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Zusammenfassung

A new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky.

Ancestry Zusammenfassung

Ancestry: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Simon Mawer

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

'Utterly absorbing, cleverly constructed and beautifully written' The Times

'Moving and exhilarating' Spectator

'Evokes the messiness and fragility of everyday life in the nineteenth century' Daily Mail

Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea ... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, imagines a new life in the big city ... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Food, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough.

Simon Mawer puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known - the unbreakable bond of family.

Ancestry Bewertungen

Utterly absorbing... so cleverly constructed and beautifully written * The Times *
Moving and exhilarating * Spectator *
Gripping... an intriguing blend of archival research and fictionalised accounts of the life histories of his own forebears... I won't forget these women whose DNA he is so proud of inheriting, or the voices he conjures for them... They were anything but ordinary * Financial Times *
Mawer writes movingly about the privations of military life and the hardships endured by women in the Victorian era... His prose is measured and elegant * Sunday Times *
Told with brio, the gutsy narrative evokes the messiness and fragility of everyday life in the nineteenth century... I was moved by Mawer's defense of storytelling as a vital tool of historical recovery * Daily Mail *
An astonishing blend of historical fiction and imaginative non-fiction, Ancestry is a book that will stay with me forever... A beautiful, haunting and extremely moving testament to what men and women without means or agency must endure to keep their families together and what we owe - and can learn from them - in turn * Natalie Jenner *

Über Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years while he taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently divide their time between Italy and Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Tightrope and Prague Spring.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR012368425
9781408714836
1408714833
Ancestry: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Little, Brown Book Group
20220728
432
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