The Children's Day - Brossura

Heyns, Michiel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0980243661 ISBN 13: 9780980243666

Casa editrice: Tin House Books, 2009

Riassunto

The award-winning South African author of The Typewriter's Tale presents the story of a young boy who grows up in a state-free village during the 1960s apartheid years, where he interacts with a range of eccentric fellow characters and confronts strange and sometimes violent expressions of class, race, and gender. Original.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Michiel Heyns grew up all over South Africa Thaba Nchu, Kimberley, Grahamstown, Cape Town - and was educated at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cambridge. For much of his adult life he was an academic, lecturing in English at the University of Stellenbosch, but after publication of his first novel, The Children’s Day, he took to writing full-time, publishingThe Reluctant Passenger in 2003 and The Typewriter’s Tale in 2005. His latest novel,Bodies Politic, was recently published by Jonathan Ball. In 2006 he translated two works by Marlene van Niekerk,Agaat and Memorandum. Agaat was awarded the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for 2006; published asThe Way of the Women in the UK in November 2007, it was short-listed for the Independent Foerign Fiction Prize. He has recently translatedEquatoria by Tom Dreyer, to be published by Aflame Books (UK) in 2008. He reviews regularly for theSunday Independent, for which he was awarded the English Academy's Pringle Prize for Reviewing for 2006.

A.L. Kennedy is one of the most distinguished and acclaimed writers of her generation. She is the author of four collections of stories, most recentlyIndelible Acts, and four novels, including Paradise and Day, winner of the 2008 Costa Book Prize. She is the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award and was chosen as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993 and again in 2003. Her work of non-fiction, On Bullfighting, is already regarded as a modern classic. She has been commissioned to write a play for the Royal Shakespeare Company and has embarked on a successful career in stand-up comedy.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Tin House Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0980243661
• ISBN 13: 9780980243666
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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