Into Suez - Rilegato

Davies, Stevie

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ISBN 10: 1906998000 ISBN 13: 9781906998004

Casa editrice: Parthian Books, 2010

Riassunto

Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered a diary written by her mother at the end of World War II. Ailsa Roberts, the writer of the diary, shows herself to be a vivid and intelligent young Englishwoman who is sailing with her little daughter on the Empire Glory to join her husband, a Welsh RAF sergeant stationed in Egypt, where Britain still occupies the Suez Canal Zone. On the voyage, however, Ailsa falls for Mona, an officer’s exotic wife. When the women finally disembark in Suez, they face a tumultuous world of casual British racism. Joe Roberts, Ailsa's young working-class husband, believes he is acting honorably when he tries to end his wife's friendship with Mona, but instead sets off a series of devastating consequences.

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Margaret Drabble writes in the Telegraph books for the summer feature Stevie Davies s Into Suez (Parthian, £11.99), which I ve just finished, is a bold and gripping novel on an important subject, with a beautifully handled double time frame, and some of Davies s best prose yet. She writes so well about childhood, landscape, class, British social attitudes and Arab realities. The careful research never intrudes and always rings true. Her characters are rounded in time, grounded in place. A very satisfying and moving book. The Telegraph --Margaret Drabble, The Telegraph

Davies writes with an intensity which is simultaneously disturbing and exhilarating; her prose has a marvellous lyricism whether she is describing the heat of Ismailia or the rain in Wales: Times Literary Supplement --Times Literary Supplement

Stevie Davies is one of our most consistent and continually undervalued writers whose unsentimental, quietly revelatory novels have cropped up on the Booker and Orange shortlists without ever quite converting to a major prize. Into Suez, her 11th novel, deserves to be the one that brings wider renown, as it presents the most fully realised fusion of her personal and political histories to date: Guardian Review An astonishing piece of writing, and writing a review is going to be like scrawling 77 per cent, well done at the bottom of a manuscript of A la recherche du temps perdu ... a rich, subtle, intricate novel, writing with a type of imaginative power that is capable of transporting the reader into a world that is at once very far away and still very close: Planet: the Welsh Internationalist --The Guardian Planet Welsh Internationalist

Alongside Jonathan Franzen's Freedom and Martin Amis' The Pregnant Widow, Stevie Davies' ambitious historical novel gained the accolade of one of the most exciting books of the year in the Guardian this week by author and journalist Margaret Drabble. She writes, Stevie Davies, in Into Suez (Parthian Books), tackles historical material in a novel that personalises the forces of imperialism and the British class system as it moves with ease from Egypt immediately after the second world war to the 21st century and back again. Davies has a fine eye for colour and place, and a keen recall of the sensations of childhood, and her characters are full of quirks and eccentricities while telling the story of a whole generation. the guardian --The Guardian parthianbooks.com

Stevie Davies is one of our most consistent and continually undervalued writers whose unsentimental, quietly revelatory novels have cropped up on the Booker and Orange shortlists without ever quite converting to a major prize. Into Suez, her 11th novel, deserves to be the one that brings wider renown, as it presents the most fully realised fusion of her personal and political histories to date: Guardian Review An astonishing piece of writing, and writing a review is going to be like scrawling 77 per cent, well done at the bottom of a manuscript of A la recherche du temps perdu ... a rich, subtle, intricate novel, writing with a type of imaginative power that is capable of transporting the reader into a world that is at once very far away and still very close: Planet: the Welsh Internationalist --The Guardian Planet Welsh Internationalist

L'autore:

Stevie Davies is the author of Boy Blue, 1986 winner of the Fawcett Society Book Prize; Closing the Book, long-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994; and The Element of Water, which in 2001 was long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award. Two of Davies's novels have been adapted for radio and television, and the film rights to her novel Kith and Kin have been purchased.

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• Editore: Parthian Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906998000
• ISBN 13: 9781906998004
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 438