Light of Amsterdam
«Subtle, understated, not without a hint of menace and always courageous ... An important book»
Eileen Battersby, <I>Irish Times</I>
It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a university art teacher, goes on a pilgrimage to the city of his youth with troubled teenage son Jack; middle-aged couple Marion and Richard take a break from running their garden centre to celebrate Marion's birthday; and Karen, a single mother struggling to make ends meet, joins her daughter's hen party. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 384
- ISBN
- 9781408831540
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Subtle, understated, not without a hint of menace and always courageous ... An important book»
Eileen Battersby, <I>Irish Times</I>
«Marvellously compelling ... Park takes that most difficult of subjects - recent history - and with graceful integrity explores the difficulties involved in coming to terms with the legacies of the past ... beautifully described in Park's crystalline prose»
<I>Daily Mail</I>
«One of the shrewdest observers of the way we live now»
Independent
«A stealthily affecting novel, this could well give more famous names a run for their Booker money»
GQ Magazine
«Woven together with warmth, compassion and great skill»
The Times