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On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water.
But each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewhere; each is haunted by past intimacies, secrets and guilt: Ellie is preoccupied by her sexual experiences as a girl, James by a tragedy for which he feels responsible, Catherine by the loss of her beloved brother in Dublin and Pei Xing by her imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution.
Told over the course of a single Saturday, Five Bells describes four lives which chime and resonate, sharing mysterious patterns and symbols. But it is a fifth person, a child, whose presence at the Quay haunts the day and who will overshadow everything that unfolds. By night-time, when Sydney is drenched in a rainstorm, each life has been transformed.
Five Bells is a novel of singular beauty and power by one of Australia's most gifted novelists.
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"A story peopled by achingly real characters, memorably related in delicate, ornate prose, and throbbing with loss" (Independent on Sunday)
"Jones's writing has the intensity of a dream, and the pattern she makes of the characters' lives is beautiful, managing to combine tension with lyricism" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"Over the past decade Gail Jones has established herself as a significant presence in contemporary Australian fiction. Thoughtful, intelligent and intensely lyrical, Five Bells is likely to consolidate an already considerable literary reputation" (Jem Poster Guardian)
"Powerful moments" (Adrian Turpin Financial Times)
"Engaging and passionate" (Aesthetica)
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"Jones's writing has the intensity of a dream, and the pattern she makes of the characters' lives is beautiful, managing to combine tension with lyricism" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"Over the past decade Gail Jones has established herself as a significant presence in contemporary Australian fiction. Thoughtful, intelligent and intensely lyrical, Five Bells is likely to consolidate an already considerable literary reputation" (Jem Poster Guardian)
"Powerful moments" (Adrian Turpin Financial Times)
"Engaging and passionate" (Aesthetica)
A deeply moving novel about love and loss and the burdens of the past which explores the lives of four people bound together by a single dramatic event.
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- EditoreHarvill Secker
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 1846554020
- ISBN 13 9781846554025
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine224
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