Our Horses In Egypt - Rilegato

Belben, Rosalind

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 070117594X ISBN 13: 9780701175948

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2007

Riassunto

Philomena, fat and lazy when she is requisitioned from an English field at the start of the First World War, sails for Egypt with the territorial regiment, the Dorset Yeomanry. She serves faithfully, charging the dervishes in the Western Desert and enduring the privations of Allenby's great campaign in Palestine. She recovers from wounds to swelter through a summer in the Jordan Valley. She takes part in the triumphant advance on Damascus - only to be sold off in Cairo among the 22,000 horses left behind by the War Office after the Armistice.

By 1921, the forceful Griselda Romney, a war widow - in the author's Hound Music she was a child - has discovered that her old hunter, Philomena, could be still alive. With her six-year-old daughter, and of course Nanny, Mrs Romney sets out to Egypt, to find Philomena and to rescue her....

Our Horses in Egypt depicts the work of a troop-horse in the Army - and of exotic Cairo, in political unrest - as meticulously and exuberantly as Hound Music recreated the milieu of Edwardian fox-hunting.

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Recensione:

Reviews of Hound Music: 'A subtle, brilliant and paradoxical novel ... She writes beautifully about nature, and she is able to characterise animals without sentimentalising them. Her ear for speech is astonishing ... A minor classic, perhaps a major one: an enthralling and non-judgemental evocation of a vanished world (The Spectator)

A beautiful, resonant book ... The charm of this strange, haunting novel lies in her extraordinary ability not merely to describe but to convey the very texture of whatever she is writing about. She inhabits not just human skins, but those of horse, hound and fox. (Sunday Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Historical novel about horses in the First World War (in Egypt and Palestine). An astonishing literary tour-de-force.

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 070117594X
• ISBN 13: 9780701175948
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320