A Boy in Winter
$33.96
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2018
Summary
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, an extraordinary new novel: ‘A spellbinding evocation of fear and threat tinged with the possibility of hope and change’
Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. A Boy In Winter tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844089994 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844089991 |
| Author: | Rachel Seiffert |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 117mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
Seiffert’s prose is not showy, but graceful and precise. The misery of the dank streets is relieved by flashes of light and humanity
Seiffert’s cool tone never wavers - her spare, beautiful prose is a joy to read - Guardian
Seiffert’s writing is spare and atmospheric, perfectly paced to achieve the maximum effect of stillness yielding to panic, order giving way to violent disorder and, eventually, winter turning into spring - Times Literary SupplementA spellbinding evocation of fear and threat tinged with the possibility of hope and change, - ObserverAbout The Author
Rachel Seiffert
Rachel Seiffert is one of Virago’s most critically acclaimed contemporary novelists. Her first book, The Dark Room, (2001) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and made into the feature film Lore. In 2003, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, and in 2011 she received the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Field Study, her collection of short stories published in 2004, received an award from PEN International. Her second novel, Afterwards (2007) third novel The Walk Home (2014), and fourth novel A Boy in Winter (2017), were all longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her books have been published in eighteen languages.
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