In the Wolf's Mouth - Rilegato

Foulds, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0374175829 ISBN 13: 9780374175825

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014

Riassunto

A new novel by the author Julian Barnes called "one of the best British writers to emerge in the last decade"

Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II, In the Wolf's Mouth follows the Allies' botched "liberation" attempts as they chased the Nazis north toward the Italian mainland. Focusing on the experiences of two young soldiers—Will Walker, an English field security officer, ambitious to master and shape events; and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian American infantryman—the novel contains some of the best battle writing of the past fifty years. Eloquent on the brutish, blundering inaccuracy of war, the immediacy of Adam Foulds's prose is uncanny and unforgettable.
The book also explores the continuity of organized crime in Sicily through the eyes of two men—Angilù, a young shepherd; and Cirò Albanese, a local Mafioso. These men appear in the prologue and in the book's terrifying final chapters, making it evident that the Mafia were there before and are there still, the slaughter of war only a temporary distraction.
In the Wolf's Mouth has achieved an extraordinary resurrection, returning humanity to the lives lost in the writing of history.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet. His most recent books inclulde the novel In the Wolf's Mouth, the novel The Quickening Maze, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has recently been awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0374175829
• ISBN 13: 9780374175825
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 323