This Lovely City
Autor Louise Hareen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2020
Cât de repede se poate transforma speranța în teamă atunci când ești străinul dintr-o mulțime care te privește cu suspiciune? Observăm în This Lovely City o Londră care încă sângerează după Blitz, un oraș unde muzica de jazz și petrecerile par să vindece rănile războiului. Lawrie Matthews, un muzician sosit cu faimoasa navă Windrush, crede că și-a găsit locul. Are o cameră, o pasiune și s-a îndrăgostit. Totul se prăbușește într-o dimineață. O descoperire teribilă transformă visul în coșmar. Tensiunea crește sufocant. Comunitatea se strânge, dar nu pentru a proteja, ci pentru a acuza. Degetele sunt îndreptate spre cei veniți recent. Găsim aici o explorare brutală a modului în care tragedia alimentează prejudecata. Stilul lui Louise Hare este alert, tăios, capturând energia vibrantă a Londrei de sud și, simultan, frigul izolării sociale. Imaginați-vă tensiunea din Small Island de Andrea Levy, mutată într-un decor de roman polițist întunecat, unde miza nu este doar adevărul, ci supraviețuirea într-o țară care te-a chemat, dar nu te vrea. Nu este doar o investigație, ci un portret istoric al unei generații sacrificate pe altarul neîncrederii. Ritmul este susținut de urgența de a dovedi nevinovăția într-un oraș care a decis deja cine este vinovatul. Observăm cum muzica de jazz devine fundalul unei lupte disperate pentru demnitate.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1487007051
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 138 x 206 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: House of Anansi Press
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Recomandăm această carte pentru amestecul rar de rigoare istorică și suspans polițist. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă viscerală asupra generației Windrush, dincolo de datele statistice. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care au apreciat Small Island și caută o poveste în care atmosfera socială este la fel de periculoasă ca misterul central. Veți descoperi o voce nouă, puternică, într-un debut premiat.
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- U.K. and Commonwealth (ex. Canada) rights were preempted in a significant six-figure deal by the HarperCollins U.K. imprint, HQ Publishing, in October 2018. They will publish in March 2020 as a lead title on their fiction list.
- In 2016, Louise was a finalist for the prestigious Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, as well as the Just Write Creative Writing Competition, for the unpublished manuscript that has since become her debut novel, This Lovely City.
- Set in 1950s London and focusing on a group of Caribbean immigrants who arrived aboard the Empire Windrush, This Lovely City shines a light on cultural and racial tensions that are still very relevant today. In 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party became embroiled in a political scandal involving the wrongful detainment, denial of legal rights, and, in at least eighty-three cases, deportation from the U.K. by the Home Office of British-born subjects who had arrived in the U.K. from Caribbean countries as part of the "Windrush generation" (named for the ship that brought the first groups of West Indian migrants to the U.K. in 1948). The scandal prompted a wider debate about British immigration policy, and the immigration policies of other countries around the world.
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*As seen on the new BBC TWO TV book club, Between the Covers* Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award Indie Book of the Month for March, selected by the Booksellers Association One of OBSERVER'S 10 best debut novelists of 2020 / WOMAN & HOME Best of 2020 / EVENING STANDARD Best books of 2020 / MAIL ON SUNDAY 2020 Highlights / I Best of 2020 * * * * 'Full of life and love . . . it made my heart soar, and should be on every Londoner's shelf' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars 'The writing is wonderful; London's energy runs right through it; the characters leap off the page. I was truly sad to leave them behind' Adam Kay, Observer 'Convincing and involving' Sunday Times 'Fans of Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy won't want to miss Louise Hare's enthralling debut novel' Elle * * * The drinks are flowing. The music is playing. But the party can't last. With the Blitz over and London reeling from war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England's call for help. Fresh off the Empire Windrush, he's taken a tiny room in south London lodgings, and has fallen in love with the girl next door. Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home - and it's alive with possibility. Until, one morning, he makes a terrible discovery. As the local community rallies, fingers of blame are pointed at those who had recently been welcomed with open arms. And, before long, the newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy which threatens to tear the city apart. Atmospheric, poignant and compelling, Louise Hare's debut shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects. But, also, that there is always hope. * * * MORE PRAISE FOR THIS LOVELY CITY: 'I loved, loved, loved it' Cathy Rentzenbrink, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love 'Full to the brim with such complete joys and heart-aching tragedies . . . you can feel the warmth and colour emanating from the pages' Magic Radio Book Club