The Mission House
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2020
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-430-1 (ISBN)
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-430-1 (ISBN)
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2020
'A compelling read. Carys Davies has an amazing gift' Penelope Lively
From the prize-winning author of West, a collision between old and new, east and west, in a former British hill station in South India.
Fleeing the dark undercurrents of his life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing.
As Hilary's friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious and nationalist tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems...
'Brilliantly crafted' Daily Mail
'An absolute triumph' Cynan Jones
'Subtle with nuance and alive with immediacy' Sunday Times
'A compelling read. Carys Davies has an amazing gift' Penelope Lively
From the prize-winning author of West, a collision between old and new, east and west, in a former British hill station in South India.
Fleeing the dark undercurrents of his life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing.
As Hilary's friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious and nationalist tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems...
'Brilliantly crafted' Daily Mail
'An absolute triumph' Cynan Jones
'Subtle with nuance and alive with immediacy' Sunday Times
Carys Davies's first novel West (Granta, 2018) won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction award, was Runner-Up for the Society of Author's McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her short stories have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. They have won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Award, the Royal Society of Literature's V S Pritchett Prize, and a Northern Writers' Award, and her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2015.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.07.2020 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 348 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78378-430-X / 178378430X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78378-430-1 / 9781783784301 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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