‘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 her English lover in the house where he was born. She arrives on a day of perfect summer, stands with his mother in a garden filled with roses, watches as his brother walks fields of ripening wheat.
But between the two brothers lies the shadow of their father’s violent death almost twenty years before, the unresolved narrative of their childhood – a story that has gone untold, a story that began in the last war. In the presence of the girl, the old trauma begins to surface as the work of the harvest begins.
‘Taut and unsettling ... A fine meditation on war’s long reach’ Mail on Sunday
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Luminescent … Organic and vital … Remarkable … Harvest is a work of delicate, devastating beauty, proof that Harding is a writer of rare insight who deserves to be read more widely
A powerfully disquieting novel about family and secrets by the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Painter of Silence
The third novel in Harding's cycle of exploring themes of memory, hindsight and witnessing (previously in The Gun Room and Land of the Living). Harding has been described as 'one of the most incisive explorers of physical adversity and its psychological effects' (Herald) and as a 'a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft' (Sadie Jones, Guardian)
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781526625106
Publisert
2022-04-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240
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