Vivid, illuminating and unbearably tense, Land of the Living is a masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love (Guardian)
A quietly powerful novel (Observer)
Audacious and moving . Elegiac, often elliptical vignettes that immaculately simulate Charlie's shame, regret and grief . Masterly (Sunday Times)
Remarkable and rare (Daily Mail)
Elegant and precise, Georgina Harding wonderfully describes Charlie's sense of dislocation, his emotional unease and the impossibility of communicating complex feelings to those who haven't experienced war (Sunday Express)
Tremendously imaginative, really compassionate . Manages to make them almost tangibly real, really immersive (Frances Macmillan BBC Radio 4 ‘Open Book’)
A lyrical novel about war and memory (Guardian, Ones to Watch 2018)
In sombre, elegant prose, Harding wonderfully describes Charlie's sense of dislocation, his emotional unease and the impossibility of communicating his complex feelings and fears to those closest to him (Eithne Farry Mail on Sunday, The Best New Fiction)
Revelatory in many ways, shining a light on the darker aspects of war . Quiet power and unexpected grace . Adds to Harding's reputation as an incisive chronicler of war and its aftermath (Financial Times)
Written with an admirable precision, and the dark of the narrative has to be teased out . It is a novel of ideas, for it invites you to think of questions of responsibility, exploitation, cruelty, brutality ... One of those rare novels which has you thinking, when you reach the end, that there is much you have passed over which demands a second reading to be fully felt and understood (Allan Massie Scotsman)
'Vivid, illuminating and unbearably tense ... A masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love' Guardian
Charlie's experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. Starting a family and working the land seem the best things a man can be doing.
But a chasm exists between them. Memories flood Charlie's mind; at night, on rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can feel more real than the present. Though hidden even to himself, the darkest secrets of Charlie's adventures in the strange and shadowy ridges of the Nagaland mountains, his dream-like encounters with the mysterious and ancient tribesmen, leak and bleed through his consciousness. What should be said and what left unsaid? Is it possible to forge a new life in the wake of unfathomable horror?
A beautifully conceived, deftly controlled and delicately wrought meditation on the isolating impact of war, the troubling legacies of colonialism and the inescapable reach of the past, Georgina Harding's haunting, lyrical novel questions the very nature of survival, and what it is that the living owe the dead.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Vivid, illuminating and unbearably tense . A masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love' GuardianCharlies experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. Starting a family and working the land seem the best things a man can be doing.But a chasm exists between them. Memories flood Charlies mind; at night, on rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can feel more real than the present. Though hidden even to himself, the darkest secrets of Charlies adventures in the strange and shadowy ridges of the Nagaland mountains, his dream-like encounters with the mysterious and ancient tribesmen, leak and bleed through his consciousness. What should be said and what left unsaid? Is it possible to forge a new life in the wake of unfathomable horror?A compelling addition to Hardings cycle of acclaimed novels on themes of witness, memory and silence, Land of the Living questions the very nature of survival, and what it is that the living owe the dead. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781408896228
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