Marcel - Softcover

Mortier, Erwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099448661 ISBN 13: 9780099448662

Verlag: Vintage, 2003

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'Mortier writes beautiful metaphorical prose...Marcel is a literary debut of great originality' Times Literary Supplement

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The narrator is a ten year old boy who lives with his grandparents in a Flemish village. His grandmother guards the family dead with fierce determination, arranging and re-arranging their photographs in a special cabinet, talking to them and arguing with them. The cabinet is an extension of heaven, with its own purgatory and hell: their place in his grandmother's favour is marked by their proximity to a statue of the Blessed Virgin. But, one image is always next to the Virgin: Marcel, who died young, far away and for whom there is no grave. How did he die? His laughing eyes, staring out from a face already obliterated by the sun, give nothing away. Only when the boy uncovers letters that hint at a hidden past, does he decide to learn who Marcel was, and why the circumstances of his death remain so painful.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099448661
• ISBN 13: 9780099448662
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128