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Folk

Zoe Gilbert
2019, Heftet, Engelsk
Folk

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A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

''That rare thing: genuinely unique'' OBSERVER
''Will win you over ... Magical'' THE TIMES
''Absolutely stunning. I loved it'' MADELINE MILLER, AUTHOR OF CIRCE

On the remote island of Neverness, the villagers'' lives are entwined with nature: its enchantments, seductions and dangers. There is May, the young fiddler who seeks her musical spirit; Madden Lightfoot, who flies with red kites; and Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm. Over the course of a generation, their desires, gossip and heartbreak interweave to create a staggeringly original world, crackling with echoes of ancient folklore.

Anmeldelser av Folk:

.An extraordinary debut novel . It feels both ancient . drawing on deep seams of myth and folklore . and strikingly contemporary, pushing at the edges of what we mean when we call a book a novel. In Folk, Zoe Gilbert has made a thing of strange and enduring beauty. . Alex Preston, Financial Times
.Folk is a special book: immersive and dripping with life, each story a spell, an allegory, a dark, smoky poem divined from the landscape of our ancient kingdom . It reads like a dream that, once visited, is difficult to leave behind. . Ben Myers, Guardian
.Genuinely original, disturbing, beautiful and gripping ... Folk can be read as a map of the British mythic imagination: of the river under the river. Starkly original and expertly written, it draws you, like a faerie song, into a kingdom from which you may never escape, and may not want to. . New Statesman
.Dazzling and unsettling, much like the best and darkest of fairy tales. . Times Literary Supplement
.A dark, often discomforting debut . Gilbert's sensuous prose conjures fantastical figures including a man born with a wing for an arm, and a girl who's abducted by a water bull . Bewitching. . The Best New Fiction, Mail on Sunday

Produktegenskaper

  • Forfatter

    Zoe Gilbert

  • Forlag/utgiver

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Format

    Heftet

  • Språk

    Engelsk

  • Utgivelsesår

    2019

  • Antall sider

    256

  • Utgivelsesdato

    07.02.2019

  • Nivå

    Voksen

  • EAN

    9781408884317

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