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PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802128289
ISBN-139780802128287
eBay Product ID (ePID)243052579
Product Key Features
Book TitleWestern Wind
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicMystery & Detective / Historical, Christian / Historical, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorSamantha Harvey
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.4 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-012886
ReviewsPraise for THE WESTERN WIND " The Western Wind is filled with the rich details of rural medieval life, but the unique structure of the story gives the novel a fresh and modern sensibility. In addition, Oakham''s remoteness and parochial village church is contrasted with the spiritual changes coming to both England and the rest of Europe, bringing to mind contemporary issues such as Brexit and the refugee crisis. Harvey...has written a densely packed historical novel that never seems dusty or precious, relishing in the psychological intricacies of power and faith but still crackling with suspense and intrigue." -- Bookpage "Harvey weaves a dazzling tapestry around loss and confession in late-15th-century England in this breathtaking novel...The lush period details and acute psychological insight will thrill fans of literary mysteries and historical fiction. Utterly engrossing." -- Publisher''s Weekly (starred review) "Harvey evokes the darkness of both winter and spirit with stark yet lovely imagery... This compulsively readable portrait of doubt and faith reveals, in small lives, humanity''s biggest questions." -- Booklist (starred review) "A medieval whodunnit...the experience [Harvey''s] book engenders is less like reading a novel and more akin to time travel - something I''ve only previously encountered in the work of Hilary Mantel." -- Financial Times "Startling and energizing... The Western Wind must be in the running for one of the year''s best novels." -- The Spectator "It is at once a literary detective story, an awkward confession, a study of a crisis in authority and faith, and a moving portrait of a tight-knit community''s dim awareness of encroaching threat." -- Sunday Times "A rich and sumptuous delight . . . the language manages to be both luminously lyrical and endlessly sharp." -- Telegraph "A medieval mystery from one of the UK''s most exquisite stylists."-- Guardian "My book of the year . . . It is quite unlike anything else I have read . . . Samantha Harvey is not half as well-known as she should be . . . This, her fourth novel, deserves to break her through to a wider audience . . . The truly extraordinary thing about this novel is the way Harvey re-creates the mindset and beliefs of the medieval world, and makes the concerns of 500 years ago vivid and immediate."-- Alice O''Keeffe, The Bookseller "Samantha Harvey''s prose is luminous, a wonderfully lyrical look at the way religious belief and pragmatism battle it out in the heart of a good man." -- Daily Express "Set in the 1400s but never feeling dusty or distant, this astonishing book is at once a rollicking mystery and profound meditation on faith and existence."-- Alex Preston, Guardian (Best Fiction for 2018) "Trumping all the above might be Samantha Harvey, whose relative anonymity should end if her next novel, The Western Wind , does as well as it deserves . . . A murder mystery, an acute dissection of class and money, and fabulously written."-- James Kidd, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post (Must-Read Books in 2018) " The Western Wind is an extraordinary, wise, wild and beautiful book--a thrilling mystery story and a lyrical enquiry into ideas of certainty and belief. Surprising, richly imagined, gloriously strange--the best kind of fiction."-- Joanna Kavenna, author of A Field Guide to Reality "Harvey is up there with the best writers working today. Here she makes the medieval world feel as relevant and pressing as tomorrow morning because--as always--she captures the immutable stuff of the human condition."-- Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal823/.92
SynopsisHailed as "this generation's Virginia Woolf" ( Telegraph ) and "one of the UK's most exquisite stylists" ( Guardian ), Samantha Harvey's breathtaking new novel is a medieval mystery told in reverse over the course of several disquieting holy days, An extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey--whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award-- The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession. It's 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours of Shrove Saturday. Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? Narrated from the perspective of local priest John Reve--patient shepherd to his wayward flock--a shadowy portrait of the community comes to light through its residents' tortured revelations. As some of their darkest secrets are revealed, the intrigue of the unexplained death ripples through the congregation. But will Reve, a man with secrets of his own, discover what happened to Newman? And what will happen if he can't? Written with timeless eloquence, steeped in the spiritual traditions of the Middle Ages, and brimming with propulsive suspense, The Western Wind finds Samantha Harvey at the pinnacle of her outstanding novelistic power.
LC Classification NumberPR6108.A7875W47 2018
Bewertungen und Rezensionen
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- 01. Feb. 2019
Can a Lonely Village Priest Save a Village, but Lose His Soul?
I purchased this novel because of the stellar review it received in the New York Times Review of Books. Yes, the author is a splendid writer. Her prose is lyrical. Not really an historical novel, although it's set at the end of the 15th century in a small English village. I saw it as a study of the inner life of the village priest. What may have been a sin of omission led from one moral dilemma to another. If you find questions of ethics intriguing, you will enjoy this novel. If you want a thriller, look elsewhere. If you have a curiosity about how one attempts to live his religion, this novel will satisfy. I was perplexed that the author mentioned the rich drinking tea, which wasn't introduced into Britain for another 150 years, but I found no other errors. I don't mean the next as a back-handed compliment, but I found reading it every night before going to sleep soothing - not because it put me to sleep, but because it is a quiet story, although it could have been shortened without hurting story or plot.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Jan. 2019
Pick it up, start reading and you won't be able to put it down.
A unique mystery story with a unique plot set in dark times.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
