Isbn: 9781642861273 - we are light (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2021 European Union Literature Prize'A riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members' belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them.'?Publishers Weekly,starred reviewOne apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realize: Elisabeth starved to death, encouraged by her roommates.In the middle of a summer nightElisabeth, the oldest resident of the Sound & Love Commune, dies. Hersister Melodie and their two other housemates are arrested: the group'sattempts to stop eating and start living on light and love alone appearsto have been fatal to Elisabeth. From unworldly idealists on the fringes ofsociety, the three suddenly become suspects in a criminal case. Through theeyes of the night, the neighbors, doubt, the scent of an orange, and many othercharacters and entities, we see how each of those involved gives a differentanswer to the question of how Elisabeth came to die. Who is to blame And doesthe commune still have a future We Are Lightis a highly original and entertaining novel about manipulation, vulnerabilityand trying to be better.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGERDA BLEESGerda Blees is a Dutch author and poet. She taught at various universities for several years while doing linguistic research on Dutch-German lingua receptiva?conversations in which each person speaks .