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An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea . I am therefore I think . So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.
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Birchwood, John Banville
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1992
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- Titel
- Birchwood
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Banville
- Verlag
- Random House UK
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1992
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 176
- ISBN10
- 0749398116
- ISBN13
- 9780749398118
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Klassiker, Irland, Irische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea . I am therefore I think . So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.