Isbn: 9781922147332 - a history of silence (4 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 288 pages. A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working toda y.The GuardianJones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrac e of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to watch. Los Angeles TimesA knockout. a fresh and immaculately paced study of t he process by which old information becomes new, and one of the bravest and best -written memoirs I have read. -The TelegraphA powerful and unexpected me moir from the author of the best-selling Man Booker Prizeshortlisted Mister Pi p.As the New Zealand city of Christchurch lies in ruins after the catastr ophic earthquake of February 2011, Lloyd Jones begins a search for his past, a s earch that takes him through childhood memories of puzzling events to Pembroke D ock in Wales, and finally to the discovery of a devastating court transcript.On this extraordinary journey, he pieces together the fragments of a story t hat has been buried in his family for a lifetime. A mother who gave up her daugh ter, a naval captain drowned at sea, a marriage to save a child.And a tru th that changes everything.Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand in 1955. H is best-known novel is the international bestseller Mister Pip, which won the 20 07 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the 2008 Kiriyama Prize Fiction Category, the 20 08 Montana Award for Readers Choice, the Montana Fiction Award, and the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize an d has been made into a major feature film starring Hugh Laurie (House). Lloyd Jo nes lives in Wellington, New Zealand.…