Up Against the Night - Hardcover

Cartwright, Justin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408858223 ISBN 13: 9781408858226

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015

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Críticas

Justin Cartwright is one of our best novelists (Daily Telegraph)

Few living British novelists write English fiction quite as well as Cartwright (Eileen Battersby, Irish Times)

One of our finest novelists (Independent)

This is Cartwright at his best, delivering a strong story with skill and feeling ( Mail on Sunday 2015-08-16)

Cartwright is as accomplished as anyone writing fiction today (Scotsman)

He's very good. He has such control, every sentence. Such ease. (Jim Crace Irish Times 2015-06-17)

A story where emotions are inescapably linked to the land of one's birth and paradise is spoilt by the worm in the bud. Brilliant (the Lady 2015-08-07)

Cartwright's writing is coolly elegant and laconic ... and there are vivid historical flashbacks, cleverly imagined ( The Times 2015-08-29)

The tension is maintained between Frank's elegiac internal monologues, the dramatic beauty of South Africa and the brief interludes when we hear the deluded Jaco's voice. Celebration is undermined by horror but in this intriguing novel, Cartwright says that is the nature of South Africa ( Express 2015-08-28)

Rich and strange . Up Against the Night with its subversive mix of tenderness and terror, is a rare novel that gets South Africa right (Christopher Hope Guardian 2015-09-05)

Reseña del editor

'History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human'

Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the New Forest, and a house near Cape Town. But more and more he feels alienated in England. As the book opens, he is preparing to go to South Africa with his lover, Nellie. He is also waiting anxiously for his daughter, Lucinda, to arrive from California, where she has been in rehab.

Frank is a descendant of the Boer leader, Piet Retief, who was murdered by the Zulu king Dingane, along with all his followers, in 1838. He has been an icon of Afrikaners ever since.

Frank's Afrikaner cousin, Jaco, has become moderately famous on YouTube for having faced down a huge white shark. He is now in America, where he has joined the Scientologists. His chaotic and violent life spills over on to Frank. He is drawn into a world of violence and delusion that is to threaten the family.

Justin Cartwright possesses that rarest of novelist's skills - the ability to create fiction which is intensely serious but which also vividly encompasses the absurdity and comedy of life.

Up Against the Night is a subtle, brilliant novel about South Africa, its beautiful, superbly evoked landscape, its violent past and its uncertain present.

Justin Cartwright is a descendant of Piet Retief.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1408858223
• ISBN 13: 9781408858226
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256