These are the Names - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925228215 ISBN 13: 9781925228212

Verlag: Scribe Publications, 2015

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Reseña del editor

A border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a murder is found in their luggage. As he begins to unravel the history of their hellish journey, it becomes increasingly intertwined with the search for his own origins that he has embarked upon. Now he becomes the group's inquisitor...and, finally, something like their saviour. Beg's likeability as a character and his dry-eyed musings considering the nature of religion keep the reader pinned to the page from the start. At the same time, the apocalyptic atmosphere of the group's exodus across the steppes becomes increasingly vivid and laden with meaning as the novel proceeds, in seeming synchronicity with the development of Beg's character. With a rare blend of humour and wisdom, Tommy Wieringa links man's dark nature with the question of who we are and whether redemption is possible.

Biografía del autor

Tommy Wieringa was born in Curacao in 1967 and grew up partly in the Netherlands, and partly in the tropics. He began his writing career with travel stories and journalism before turning to the novel. Wieringa has won numerous awards for his work, including Holland's Halewijn Prize for All About Tristan in 2002, and the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize for Joe Speedboat in 2006. Both of these novels were also nominated for the AKO Literature Prize. His second novel, Little Caesar, was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award, and his most recent novel, These Are The Names, won Holland's Libris Literature Prize for 2013 and has sold over 200,000 copies across Europe.

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• Verlag: Scribe Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1925228215
• ISBN 13: 9781925228212
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272