Small Wars: A Novel (P.S.) - Brossura

Jones, Sadie

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ISBN 10: 0061929891 ISBN 13: 9780061929892

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2011

Riassunto

“Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her.” —Tracy Chevalier, author ofGirl with the Pearl Earring

Fresh off her triumphantly assured debut novel The Outcast, award-winning author Sadie Jones has again delivered a quiet masterpiece inSmall Wars. Set on the colonial, war-torn island of Cyprus in 1956, Jones tells the story of a young solider, Hal Treherne, and the effects of this “small war” on him, his wife Clara, and their family. Reminiscent of classic tales of love and war such as The English Patient and Atonement, Jones’s gripping novel also calls to mind the master works of Virginia Woolf and their portrayal of the quiet desperation of a marriage in crisis.Small Wars is at once a deeply emotional, meticulously researched work of historical fiction and a profound meditation on war-time atrocities committed both on and off the battlefield.

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Recensione

“In lean, penetrating prose...Jones serves her themes most potently with an unflinching tumble of violent encounters that effectively transform Hal’s liberation...into a haunting act of transcendence.” (New York Times Book Review)

“A taut and transfixing novel... [Jones is] a gifted young author.” (Boston Globe)

“Manages to be both rich and sparse...with just enough carefully selected detail to breathe vividness into the novel...In what reads as a quiet, calm work, Jones captures the essence of dehumanized warfare and renders inescapable parallels in a more modern world.” (Denver Post)

“What SMALL WARS shows us, and quite masterfully, is on how many fronts war takes its toll. Love, trust and intimacy in marriage become casualties. But so does war itself—our belief in it, that it’s right and just and necessary; that it solves anything...Told with strikingly clear and muscular prose...Jones’s narration is powerfully restrained, with a great deal of subterranean tension.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“A darkly compelling account of honor and disillusionment with contemporary resonance...a confirmation of [Jones’s] considerable talent.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Ambitious and thematically charged...A timely novel, as well as a harrowing one” (Christian Science Monitor)

“To this grave account of degradation—from great wars to small, from certainty to doubt, from romance to resignation—Jones brings surprising reserves of energy and finesse.” (Donna Rifkind, Washington Post)

L'autore

Sadie Jones is the author of five novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; the enchanting, hard-hitting novel set on the island of Cyprus during the British occupation, Small Wars; her most successful, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests, beloved of Ann Patchett and Jackie Winspear, among other; the romantic novel set in London's glamorous theatre world, Fallout; and most recently, the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel, The Snakes. Sadie Jones lives in London.

 

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• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061929891
• ISBN 13: 9780061929892
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400