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A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .
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A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- J. L. Carr
- Verlag
- Penguin UK
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 112
- ISBN10
- 0241972035
- ISBN13
- 9780241972038
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Klassiker, Liebe, Britische Literatur, England, Novellen, Vergangenheit, Erster Weltkrieg (1914–1918), Glück, Kirche, Sommer, Dörfer, Land, Yorkshire
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1980
- Originaltitel
- A Month in the Country
- Bewertung
- 4,1 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .