The Turning (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 284) - Softcover

Winton, Tim

 
9780330441353: The Turning (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 284)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330441353 ISBN 13: 9780330441353
Verlag: Picador, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, abrupt transitions. The seventeen stories overlap to paint a convincing and cohesive picture of a world where people struggle against the terrible weight of their past and challenge the lives they have made for themselves.

In The Turning Tim Winton gives us seventeen exquisite overlapping tales of second thoughts and mid-life regret – extraordinary stories of ordinary people from ordinary places. Here are turnings of all kinds – changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours – where people struggle against the terrible weight of the past and challenge the lives they’ve made for themselves.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330441353
ISBN 13 
9780330441353
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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