Make Strange
Autor Niamh Campbellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mar 2027
'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL
'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEÁN HEWITT
It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the terrarium-sized tub of toys in the living room and asks, 'Mama, do you remember when I died?'
Over the course of the next strange, strained year, Sunny will refer repeatedly to her previous lives, and how they ended.
Her parents, Lena and Odhran - who rushed headfirst into family life after an accidental pregnancy and a hasty registry office wedding - are left desperate for answers.
Is their child suffering from disassociation, a psychological disorder, or something more? Has she been contaminated by their own haunted histories - by Lena's experiences as an indie musician in the era of sleaze, by a shady legacy of madness in Odhran's family? Can we ever really protect our children? What if we can't?
From the multi-award-winning author of This Happy and We Were Young, comes a shimmering, propulsive novel about maternal concern, childhood imagination, past lives and present loves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399631815
ISBN-10: 1399631810
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399631810
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Beautifully poised between love and wonder, Campbell captures the uncanny mystery of motherhood so well. Her richly evocative prose delivers new pleasures on every page. Making Strange is a shifting, hopeful novel about the nature of change
Sometimes it is worth stating things plainly: this is a great novel by a great novelist . . . Deeply wise, deeply humane, deeply stylish and deeply moving
Cool, poised, stylish, sharp and fiercely intelligent, Make Strange takes its striking premise, of a child who claims to have lived and died before, and uses it as a prism through which to make our most quotidian days strange and mysterious; to explore what strangers we are even to ourselves. An impressive book, and a writer to be admired
Niamh Campbell writes contemporary Dublin like no other writer I can think of. Make Strange is a glowing, moving, daring book - sharp as flint, and supple, almost shape-shifting in its observation. This is a novel that asks big questions - about life, family, the mind, and about how we live in a world full of estrangements. Niamh Campbell is building a body of work that feels, to me, important and truthful and brilliantly new
Every novel by Niamh Campbell is a gift and Make Strange is no exception. I am in love with Campbell's prose: this is a forensic examination of the psychological effects of childrearing, and of trying to make a good life for oneself and for others. The uncanniness of parenting haunts the novel like a spectre in sentences that are shaped like the feelings they evoke. It's Anne Enright meets John McGahern meets the contemporary moment, while also being completely, distinctly Niamh Campbell. Bravo
Make Strange is a brilliant novel, full of curious ideas and melancholic beauty and gorgeous prose. Reminiscent of Anne Enright, Paul Murray, Claire Kilroy and Belinda McKeon, though that is not to say that Campbell doesn't have a singular voice; she absolutely does. I devoured it
Make Happy is an attentive and at times breathtaking novel, written by an exceptional writer in full flow
Campbell captures the lives of one small family in extraordinary ways. Luscious language and delicious detail drip from every page making this novel simply exquisite
Haunting, lyrical and tender. A luminous portrait of a young family under pressure
This book is so rich. Both haunting and funny, the novel captures the way motherhood both blurs and sharpens one's sense of self. I've rarely encountered characters who felt so nuanced and alive. Make Strange will stay with me for a long time
A fiercely intelligent and accomplished stylist, capturing contemporary Irish life with astonishing accuracy. Make Strange is a rich story of contemporary family life and the pasts that come to haunt them told through Campbell's signature descriptive and vivid prose
Intriguing and original
Sometimes it is worth stating things plainly: this is a great novel by a great novelist . . . Deeply wise, deeply humane, deeply stylish and deeply moving
Cool, poised, stylish, sharp and fiercely intelligent, Make Strange takes its striking premise, of a child who claims to have lived and died before, and uses it as a prism through which to make our most quotidian days strange and mysterious; to explore what strangers we are even to ourselves. An impressive book, and a writer to be admired
Niamh Campbell writes contemporary Dublin like no other writer I can think of. Make Strange is a glowing, moving, daring book - sharp as flint, and supple, almost shape-shifting in its observation. This is a novel that asks big questions - about life, family, the mind, and about how we live in a world full of estrangements. Niamh Campbell is building a body of work that feels, to me, important and truthful and brilliantly new
Every novel by Niamh Campbell is a gift and Make Strange is no exception. I am in love with Campbell's prose: this is a forensic examination of the psychological effects of childrearing, and of trying to make a good life for oneself and for others. The uncanniness of parenting haunts the novel like a spectre in sentences that are shaped like the feelings they evoke. It's Anne Enright meets John McGahern meets the contemporary moment, while also being completely, distinctly Niamh Campbell. Bravo
Make Strange is a brilliant novel, full of curious ideas and melancholic beauty and gorgeous prose. Reminiscent of Anne Enright, Paul Murray, Claire Kilroy and Belinda McKeon, though that is not to say that Campbell doesn't have a singular voice; she absolutely does. I devoured it
Make Happy is an attentive and at times breathtaking novel, written by an exceptional writer in full flow
Campbell captures the lives of one small family in extraordinary ways. Luscious language and delicious detail drip from every page making this novel simply exquisite
Haunting, lyrical and tender. A luminous portrait of a young family under pressure
This book is so rich. Both haunting and funny, the novel captures the way motherhood both blurs and sharpens one's sense of self. I've rarely encountered characters who felt so nuanced and alive. Make Strange will stay with me for a long time
A fiercely intelligent and accomplished stylist, capturing contemporary Irish life with astonishing accuracy. Make Strange is a rich story of contemporary family life and the pasts that come to haunt them told through Campbell's signature descriptive and vivid prose
Intriguing and original