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The Dutch House: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020

Autor Ann Patchett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2019
An unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number OneNew York Timesbestselling author ofCommonwealthandBel Canto'The book of the autumn. The American author ofCommonwealth(brilliant) andBel Canto(even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet' -Sunday Times'The buzz aroundThe Dutch Houseis totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' - John Boyne"'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer."Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings.Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.Told with Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak,The Dutch Houseis a dark fairy tale and story of a paradise lost; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526614957
ISBN-10: 1526614952
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Patchett's most recent novelCommonwealthhas sold over 500,000 copies in the UK and export, and was chosen as a book of the year by theGuardian,Observer,Sunday Times,Mail on SundayandNew York Times

Notă biografică

Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The Magician's Assistant in 1998, winning the prize with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl.


Recenzii

If there's a better, more poignant or involving novel thanThe Dutch Housepublished this year, I will be very, very surprised
A gloriously immersive family saga about lost inheritance
One of my top favourite contemporary writers. I don't think that there's a book of hers that I haven't put down at the end and been haunted by for weeks after
The vicissitudes of life in a step-family unfold over five decades . A moving portrait of an unusual house and the unhappy family living in it
The Dutch Houseis a novel that assures Patchett, alongside John Irving and Anne Tyler, a place as one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives
Indelibly poignant in its long unspooling perspective on family life,The Dutch Housebrilliantly captures how time undoes all certainties
An intimate and transporting novel .The Dutch Houseis a novel brimming with pain and tenderness in which Patchett's gifts as a storyteller are on full display . A searching, exquisitely wrenching novel about family, sacrifice and obsession
One of the most celebrated novelists of our times . But it is her new book, widely billed a one of this autumn's best new reads, where she truly comes into her own
A family story full of love and pain and insight
Impeccably fine . A thoughtful, quietly profound book
The Dutch Houseoffers . A simultaneous awareness of human fragility and human resilience
As always, Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life, rather than literature
She uses her signature blend of wry humour, rage and regret in a tale of siblings who cannot escape the shadow of their childhood home
An outstanding novel, wryly funny, heart-breakingly sad and entirely engrossing
We're calling it now:The Dutch Housewill be the book of the autumn ... Her finest novel yet
Few novelists today combine such a forensic eye with an acute and humane understanding of human nature. I would read Ann Patchett's shopping list
Patchett is a master at pacing and detail . The question of what makes a home pervades this gripping book
She rivals Tyler for emotional acuity
Ann Patchett writes novels that quietly and thoroughly devastate the reader - in a good way. Her new novel is no exception
Patchett well deserves her reputation for compelling novels, andThe Dutch Houseis her most enthralling yet
What a spectacular novel. A masterpiece, I'd say
Wise and funny and unwraps the complexities of human beings with heartbreaking tenderness. I love this book
The buzz aroundThe Dutch Houseis totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something
A dark modern fairy tale, a delicately woven portrait of a family in flux
The plot is gentle but firm while Patchett's prose dazzles with detail and nuance, spinning a story that tucks itself inside your heart
Wonderfully astute ... Patchett's books . have a sly comic undertow
A marvellously romantic and evocative novel about the nostalgic pull of a lost home . Beautifully written and often tender . That rare thing: a novel which reveals greater riches on a second reading
Beautifully imagined . Patchett has excelled herself to produce one of the most moving and engaging novels this year
Engrossing . A captivating family saga about injustice and forgiveness
Gothic and slyly comic, it's full of smart observations about sibling power struggles

Descriere

An unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto'The book of the autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet' - Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' - John Boyne"'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer."Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings.Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.Told with Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale and story of a paradise lost; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives.