The Translation of the Bones - Brossura

Kay, Francesca

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0297865099 ISBN 13: 9780297865094

Casa editrice: W&N, 2011

Riassunto

Faith or delusion? Fantasy or fact? When word gets out that Mary-Margaret O'Reilly, a slow-witted but apparently harmless young woman, may have been witness to a miracle, religious mania descends on the Church of the Sacred Heart in Battersea. The consequences will be profound, not only for Mary-Margaret but for others too - Father Diamond, the parish priest, who is in the midst of his own lonely crisis of faith, and Stella Morrison, adrift in a loveless marriage and aching for her ten-year old son, away at boarding school. Meanwhile, Alice Armitage counts the days until her soldier son comes home from Afghanistan, and Mary-Margaret's mother, Fidelma, imprisoned in her tower block, stares out over London for hour after hour with nothing but her thoughts for company. Remembering her early childhood by the sea in Ireland, the bleak institution she was sent to and the boy she loved, she hungers for consoling touch. But as Mary-Margaret's attempts to change lives become increasingly desperate, a tragedy ensues¿

The Translation of the Bones is a searingly powerful novel about passion and isolation, about the nature of belief, about love and motherhood and a search for truth.

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Descrizione del libro

A novel about faith and motherhood from the author of AN EQUAL STILLNESS, winner of the ORANGE PRIZE FOR NEW WRITERS.

L'autore

Francesca Kay grew up in South-east Asia and India and has subsequently lived in Jamaica, the United States, Germany and Ireland. She now lives in Oxford with her family and works in British-Irish relations. Her first novel AN EQUAL STILLNESS won the ORANGE PRIZE FOR NEW WRITERS.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0297865099
• ISBN 13: 9780297865094
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224