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Up Against the Night

Autor Justin Cartwright
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2015
'History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human' Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the New Forest, and a house near Cape Town. But more and more he feels alienated in England. As the book opens, he is preparing to go to South Africa with his lover, Nellie. He is also waiting anxiously for his daughter, Lucinda, to arrive from California, where she has been in rehab. Frank is a descendant of the Boer leader, Piet Retief, who was murdered by the Zulu king Dingane, along with all his followers, in 1838. He has been an icon of Afrikaners ever since. Frank's Afrikaner cousin, Jaco, has become moderately famous on YouTube for having faced down a huge white shark. He is now in America, where he has joined the Scientologists. His chaotic and violent life spills over on to Frank. He is drawn into a world of violence and delusion that is to threaten the family. Justin Cartwright possesses that rarest of novelist's skills - the ability to create fiction which is intensely serious but which also vividly encompasses the absurdity and comedy of life.Up Against the Nightis a subtle, brilliant novel about South Africa, its beautiful, superbly evoked landscape, its violent past and its uncertain present. Justin Cartwright is a descendant of Piet Retief.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408858233
ISBN-10: 1408858231
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Justin Cartwright is one of our most celebrated British novelists, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Whitbread Novel Award, among others. His books have sold almost 200,000 copies across all formats (Bookscan), and he has been compared to Nabokov, William Boyd, Ian McEwan and Philip Roth, among others

Notă biografică

Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlistedIn Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winnerLeading the Cheers, the acclaimedWhite Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award,The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize,The Song Before It Is Sung,To Heaven By Water,Other People's Money, winner of the Spears novel of the year and, most recently, the acclaimedLion Heart. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London. @justincartwrig1

Recenzii

Justin Cartwright is one of our best novelists
Few living British novelists write English fiction quite as well as Cartwright
One of our finest novelists
This is Cartwright at his best, delivering a strong story with skill and feeling
Cartwright is as accomplished as anyone writing fiction today
He's very good. He has such control, every sentence. Such ease.
A story where emotions are inescapably linked to the land of one's birth and paradise is spoilt by the worm in the bud. Brilliant
Cartwright's writing is coolly elegant and laconic ... and there are vivid historical flashbacks, cleverly imagined
The tension is maintained between Frank's elegiac internal monologues, the dramatic beauty of South Africa and the brief interludes when we hear the deluded Jaco's voice. Celebration is undermined by horror but in this intriguing novel, Cartwright says that is the nature of South Africa
Rich and strange .Up Against the Nightwith its subversive mix of tenderness and terror, is a rare novel that gets South Africa right
In this fine novel, Justin Cartwright proves once again just why he is among the foremost novelists in the English language . This is an elegantly written, cleverly plotted and many layered novel
As always, Cartwright draws you into his characters' lives, the smug security of wealth undermined by the lurking threat of violence. This is up there with his best
The master of the erudite soft touch, Cartwright is on masterly form
[a] juxtaposition of beauty and savagery
Evoking Coetzee'sDisgraceand Gordimer'sThe House Gun, Cartwright brings new twists and a sure touch to his tragicomedy about a decent man's rude awakening to shared history's capricious side.
Wryly witty and drily critical of the political powers-that-be, Cartwright - in person and on the page - hits his satirical targets with a satisfying "ping"
Combines beauty, joy, and foreboding
Cartwright's tale of the confrontation of national and personal identities is unblinking - at times beautiful and full of love, at others, lonely and desperate
Cartwright's characterisation is excellent and he writes observantly about a society where violence is never far beneath the surface