夜幕降临 英文原版 Up Against the Night
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作者Justin Cartwright
出版社Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN9781408858226
出版时间2015-08
印刷时间2015-08
印数1千册
装帧平装
开本32开
纸张轻型纸
页数256页
字数1千字
定价190元
上书时间2024-05-26
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (27 Aug. 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1408858223
ISBN-13: 978-1408858226
Product Dimensions:24.3 x 2.5 x 16.3 cm
Product description
'History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human'
Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the New Forest, and a house near Cape Town. But more and more he feels alienated in England. As the book opens, he is preparing to go to South Africa with his lover, Nellie. He is also waiting anxiously for his daughter, Lucinda, to arrive from California, where she has been in rehab.
Frank is a descendant of the Boer leader, Piet Retief, who was murdered by the Zulu king Dingane, along with all his followers, in 1838. He has been an icon of Afrikaners ever since.
Frank's Afrikaner cousin, Jaco, has become moderately famous on YouTube for having faced down a huge white shark. He is now in America, where he has joined the Scientologists. His chaotic and violent life spills over on to Frank. He is drawn into a world of violence and delusion that is to threaten the family.
Justin Cartwright possesses that rarest of novelist's skills - the ability to create fiction which is intensely serious but which also vividly encompasses the absurdity and comedy of life.
Up Against the Night is a subtle, brilliant novel about South Africa, its beautiful, superbly evoked landscape, its violent past and its uncertain present.
Justin Cartwright is a descendant of Piet Retief.
Book Description
From Whitbread Novel Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Justin Cartwright comes an intimate exploration of one man's relationship with South Africa and its turbulent history
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