The Natural Way Of Things - Hardcover

Wood, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1760291870 ISBN 13: 9781760291877

Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2016

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Exposing the threads of misogyny, cowardice and abuses of power embedded in contemporary society, this is a confronting, sometimes deeply painful novel to read. With an unflinching eye and audacious imagination, Charlotte Wood carries us from a nightmare of helplessness and despair to a fantasy of revenge and reckoning. * Guardian * How each character copes with their unusual incarceration is fascinating. The language is beautiful... Charlotte Wood's is a unique, original voice that soothes and shocks in equal measures in this pitch-perfect dystopian nightmare. * Townsville Bulletin * The kind of book you inhale in a sitting... Stark prose and unrelenting pace. * The Saturday Paper, Best Books of 2015 * [A] Confronting, confounding novel of mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned women. * The Australian, Best Books of 2015 * Bold, provocative, startling and insightful, The Natural Way of Things is what fiction should be. * The Newtown Review of Books * A moving, mesmerising and brilliantly topical interrogation of misogyny that demands to be read at a sitting. * Adelaide Advertiser * A dystopian fable, both gripping and lyrical. * The Saturday Age, Best Books of 2015 * A virtuoso performance, plotted deftly through a minefield of potential traps, weighted with allegory yet swift and sure in its narrative advance. -- Rosemary Sorensen * Sydney Review of Books * A confronting and blazing read... A novel to provoke thought, conversation, disgust, anger and concern, a work that will haunt the reader with its poetry and the stark truths buried within Wood's brilliant exploration of a toxic culture in extremis. * Weekend Australian * This is an extraordinary novel: inspired, powerful, at once coherent and dreamlike. * Sydney Morning Herald, Best Books of 2015 * A haunting parable of contemporary misogyny...Ms Wood's writing is direct and spare, yet capable of bursting with unexpected beauty. * Economist * This is not psychological fiction but a horror parable; a portrait not of people, but of tendencies. Seen as mythical archetypes, the characters are only too frighteningly real...The Natural Way of Things is chillingly dark and unfashionably didactic. But it's also compulsively readable, and bears its load of significance with effortless power. The fury of contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror. * Guardian *

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Winner of the Stella Prize Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award Observer Books of the Year 2016 'Beautiful and savage - think Atwood in the outback.' Paula Hawkins, Observer She hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, 'I need to know where I am.' The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised. He says, almost in sympathy, 'Oh, sweetie. You need to know what you are.' Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, forced to wear strange uniforms, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious armed jailers and a 'nurse'. The girls all have something in common, but what is it? What crime has brought them here from the city? Who is the mysterious security company responsible for this desolate place with its brutal rules, its total isolation from the contemporary world? Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue - but when the food starts running out it becomes clear that the jailers have also become the jailed. The girls can only rescue themselves.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1760291870
• ISBN 13: 9781760291877
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1