17 Ergebnisse.

A luminous and profound meditation on the devastations of trauma in the wake of the Second World War, from a writer at the height of her powers Every time the dream came it was different and yet he felt that he had dreamt it exactly that way before. The trees, there were always the trees, and the mist and the shadows and the running.Charlie's experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Northern Ind...

I would compare her to writers like Helen Dunmore, Elizabeth Strout, Jon McGregor' BBC Radio 4 'Harding achieves a weighty sense of silence and things not said in this unsettling book about the aftershocks of trauma and the burdens of bearing witness' Sunday Times 'A masterly achievement, illuminating with wisdom and compassion the darkest corners of the human heart' Guardian A farm in Norfolk in the 1970s. A Japanese girl comes to visit he...

Beautiful, strange and haunting, this is the compelling story of one man's lone survival against the ravages of nature and an unforgettable first novel.

I would compare her to writers like Helen Dunmore, Elizabeth Strout, Jon McGregor' BBC Radio 4 'Harding achieves a weighty sense of silence and things not said in this unsettling book about the aftershocks of trauma and the burdens of bearing witness' Sunday Times 'A masterly achievement, illuminating with wisdom and compassion the darkest corners of the human heart' Guardian So fresh and free she looked, in the yellow dress. Sunlight to bl...

Charlie's experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Settled on a farm in Norfolk with his wife Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. But the foundations of his tentatively laid new life are threatened by the floods of memory, and on misty mornings working in the fields, Charlie finds himself transported back to the strange and shadowy ridg...

Siamo in un paesino della campagna inglese nel 1961. Un mattino d'inverno, quando Anna ha solo otto anni, sua madre muore in un misterioso incidente stradale. La sera stessa, il telegiornale annuncia la cattura di tre agenti del KGB in incognito, che conducevano insospettabili esistenze piccoloborghesi in provincia. Colpiti da questa e altre storie di spionaggio (è l'epoca della Guerra Fredda e della minaccia comunista), Anna e il fratello Pet...

Siamo in un paesino della campagna inglese nel 1961. Un mattino d'inverno, quando Anna ha solo otto anni, sua madre muore in un misterioso incidente stradale. La sera stessa, il telegiornale annuncia la cattura di tre agenti del KGB in incognito, che conducevano insospettabili esistenze piccoloborghesi in provincia. Colpiti da questa e altre storie di spionaggio (è l'epoca della Guerra Fredda e della minaccia comunista), Anna e il fratello Pet...

An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendshipShortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012

Jonathan has gone to Vietnam to be a war photographer. A chance encounter takes him into a burning village and scenes of mayhem, and he gets the shot that might make his career. Only the horror is too great. He flees to Tokyo, to lose himself and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom - and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. But even here his history catches up with him: the photograph, his respons...

Early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page.

Keine Beschreibung.

Reissue of the historical novel set in the Arctic wildnerness, with a new jacket to tie in with the publication of the paperback edition of "The Spy Game".

Keine Beschreibung.

In 1616, an English whaling ship heads home, leaving one sailor behind, Thomas Cave, who has made a bet with the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic islandalone.

In 1616, an English whaling ship heads home, leaving one sailor behind, Thomas Cave, who has made a bet with the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic islandalone.

A powerful novel about the memory of war, and how people bring that memory back to the world of peace, from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding.Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that vil...

Paperback edition of the suspenseful novel about childhood, grief and Cold War paranoia. From the author of "The Solitude Of Thomas Cave", it will appeal to fans of "Restless" by William Boyd and "Spies" by Michael Frayn. '...she lays an image down so gently that it floats in the mind long after' Margaret Forster