The Shepherd's Hut - Hardcover

Winton, Tim

 
9781509863877: The Shepherd's Hut
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1509863877 ISBN 13: 9781509863877
Verlag: Picador, 2018

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Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world.

For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.

And so Jaxie runs. There’s just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven't reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only a dreamer – or a fugitive – would attempt.

'A page-turning heartbreaker' – Emma Donoghue, author of Room.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. 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). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.

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‘Searing, ardent and deeply empathetic . . . Jaxie Clackton is destined to become one of the greatest characters in Australian literature’ Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders

‘A novel that reminds us what fiction can do. Here is a voice that digs into your viscera and changes you from the inside’ Ross Raisin, author of God’s Own Country
‘A master novelist at the very peak of his craft. The Shepherd's Hut is full of heart and life and beauty’ Evie Wyld, author of All The Birds, Singing
‘A fierce, pungent, slangy, humdinger of a book, with a real kick in the tail. Fiction doesn’t get much better than this’ Rupert Thomson, author of Divided Kingdom

'Once you start reading this book, you won’t want to put it down. A powerful, most compelling story' Brad Watson, author of Miss Jane

‘The Shepherd’s Hut is a brilliant reminder that Winton is one of the world’s great living novelists’ Ron Rash, author of Serena

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509863877
ISBN 13 
9781509863877
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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