Ursula Under - Softcover

Hill, Ingrid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099479869 ISBN 13: 9780099479864

Verlag: Vintage, 2006

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Ursula Under. Hill, Ingrid. Vintage, 2006

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Críticas:

"A chronicle of lives as strange and fantastical as fairy tales...An amazing feat of imagination...a delight of design. For colour and ambition this debut is hard to fault" (Daily Mail)

"Boy, can Ingrid Hill tell stories" (Guardian)

"An epic formula that, thanks to the author's no-frills execution, works remarkably well. Vivid...playful storytelling...The cumulative weight of family history lends the novel emotional heft" (Independent)

"An amazing feat of imagination. This debut is hard to fault" (Observer)

"Mind-blowing. This bold novel is an enlightening, gripping read" (Eve)

Reseña del editor:

A dangerous rescue attempt in Michigan has captured the attention of the entire country. A two-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. Ursula Wong is the only child of a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as 'half-breed trailer trash', not worth all the expense.

But Ursula is the last of her family line and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity. Ursula's forebears include a second-century BC Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a Swedish queen; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather, Jake Maki, a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty-nine.

Ursula's fate echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual's life comes to seem a miracle.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0099479869
• ISBN 13: 9780099479864
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496