A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from Orange-prize
shortlisted author Georgina Harding 'Georgina Harding's novel is the
finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and
a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose'
Guardian The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything
else. Dawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese
village, and a young photographer takes 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 village is more than he can bear... He flees to Japan, to
lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, 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. Yet even here his history will catch
up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his
responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried deep in
his past. The first in Harding's cycle of acclaimed novels on themes
of witness, memory and silence, The Gun Room is beautiful, powerful
and utterly devastating.
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ISBN
9781408869826
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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