Bullet Collection - Softcover

Ward, Patricia Sarrafian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555972993 ISBN 13: 9781555972998

Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2013

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" Patricia Ward writes with great authority and unyielding lyric precision about a family and nation torn apart." -- Nicholas Delbanco
“Patricia Ward writes with great authority and unyielding lyric precision about a family and nation torn apart.” —Nicholas Delbanco
"Patricia Ward writes with great authority and unyielding lyric precision about a family and nation torn apart." --Nicholas Delbanco

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“Passionate, lyrical, and deeply humane, this tale of two sisters caught in a war without end moves effortlessly through space and time . . . an astonishing first novel.” —Andrea Barrett

Marianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirut—bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaine’s retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure the daily violence of the Middle East conflict, it is Marianna who becomes her older sister’s keeper, watching for any signal that might trigger one of Alaine’s frequent, grim excavations. But once the family escapes to America, Alaine’s newfound contentment is as alien to Marianna as her madness once was. As Marianna longs for her beloved, war-torn home, she struggles to understand that now she is the difficult sister.

In lyrical, dreamlike prose, The Bullet Collection by Patricia Sarrafian Ward mines both the stunning, exotic landscape of Beirut and the pure, defiant landscape of a child’s heart, and shows how war leaves its indelible scars on both.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1555972993
• ISBN 13: 9781555972998
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320