Winter Under Water: or, Conversation with the Elements - Hardcover

Hopkin, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330426796 ISBN 13: 9780330426794

Verlag: Picador, 2007

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Is it possible to fully comprehend a person when you don’t grasp the intricacies of their culture, when you don’t share a homeland or a voice, when you have different definitions of the past and conflicting commitments in the present? What future is there for love when you find yourself the other side of language -- a place where everything feels slowed down, reduced to gestures, as if under water? When Joseph meets Marta, who has come to the UK to research the forgotten histories of remarkable women from across Europe, he is captivated, and Marta feels the same; when she returns to her previous life, their relationship continues through letters and phone calls. Then Joseph decides to visit Marta in her native Poland. His subsequent journey, across a continent, through the cold and dark of an unfamiliar country, proves as much a search for understanding -- of a person, a place, a language -- as it does a struggle against isolation. Interlinking Joseph’s often strange experiences with Marta’s letters to him, Winter Under Water is a book of Europe, of myriad identities, of love and language. It is also, ultimately, a book that suggests you only truly know a person or a place when you can sit in silence and not feel compelled to break it -- in any language.

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Biografía del autor:

James Hopkin has lived in Berlin, Manchester, Krakow, Zagreb, Leipzig and several other cities, countrysides, and by-the-sea places across Europe. His short story 'Even the Crows Say Krakow' won the inaugural Norwich Prize for Literature and is available in a small ebook collection of the same name. His critically-acclaimed debut novel, Winter Under Water, was published in 2007. His short stories have been widely published, anthologised and are frequently broadcast on BBC Radio, (including trilogies set in Dalmatia and Georgia) the latest in January 2016. Hopkin has won numerous awards for his fiction and has written non-fiction for the Guardian since 1999, including travel pieces, interviews and book reviews. He is a tireless promoter of European literature; he speaks German and Polish, has been a guest professor at the University of Leipzig, and has held writer-in-residence posts in Croatia, Georgia, and Denmark and, in Jan And February, 2017, in Prague, Unesco City of Literature.

Biografía del autor:

James Hopkin has lived in Krakow, Berlin, Manchester and several other cities and countrysides in Europe. This is his first novel.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330426796
• ISBN 13: 9780330426794
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368