It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story' Hilary Mantel'So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting' Maggie O'FarrellThe highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.
Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories - even when words fail us. A meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Harpercollins Pub.
ISBN: 9780008204914
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 29/04/2021
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Escrito por Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor Va néixer el 1976 a les illes Bermudes i és autor de dos llibres de contes i quatre novel·les, amb tres de les quals ha estat finalista del Man Booker Prize. Amb If Nobody Speaks of Remarcable Things va guanyar els premis Somerset Maugham i Betty Trask; amb Even the Dogs, l'International Dublin Literary Award; i amb Embassament 13, el Premi Costa de novela. Actualment és professor d'escriptura creativa a la Universitat de Nottingham. Ferran Ràfols Gesa Nascut a Barcelona (1975) és traductor literari de l'anglès i del francès. Entre els autors que ha tingut el plaer de traslladar al català hi ha David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Joseph Conrad, Colm Tóibín, Siri Hustvedt, Jonathan Lethem, Raymond Carver, Jeffrey Eugenides, Amélie Nothomb o Emmanuel Carrère. El 2013 va guanyar el premi Núvol de Traducció per Moo Pak, de Gabriel Josipovici.