Sarah Hall

An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).'Dark and brilliant.' SARAH MOSS'A masterpience.' DAISY JOHNSON'Extraordinary.' SARAH PERRY'Hall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellecutally brave and emotionally honest.'THE SCOTSMAN

Quienes cuentan historias sobreviven, le dijo su madre a la protagonista un día que desapareció varias horas y la dejó sola en la casa de los páramos. Las historias dan sentido a un mundo desordenado, y Edith aprende a lidiar desde pequeña -a su pesar- con la arbitrariedad y la incertidumbre, con el caos de la mente de su madre, una escritora amnesica. Aprende tambien a trabajar la madera, a quemarla para volverla mas resistente, segun una ancestral tecnica japonesa. Cuando llega la crisis, el abismo que se abre en el centro y lo devora todo, se recluye con su amante, pensandose a salvo en ese estudio aislado junto al rio, y los primeros dias del encierro tienen la intensidad de un sueño.Sarah Hall, una de las mejores novelistas jovenes del Reino Unido segun la revista "Granta", ha ganado en dos ocasiones el Premio Portico, y tambien ha sido galardonada con el Premio Betty Trask, el Premio Commonwealth a la primera novela, el Premio BBC de relato, el Premio John Llewellyn Rhys, el Premio E. M. Forster... Madera quemada, su sexta novela, es la historia de un amor confinado, una experiencia sublime y abrasadora, una elegia que ningun lector olvidara.

El estado de la nación ha cambiado. Con la mayoría del país inundado, los recursos controlados por el gobierno, y guerras en curso en Sudamérica y en China, Inglaterra está irreconocible. En este mundo de precariedad y extenuante trabajo industrial, la Autoridad insiste en que todas las mujeres lleven dispositivos de contracepcion. Hermana nos cuenta su historia desde su celda: como soño con escapar a una comuna de mujeres que viven en Carhullan, una granja fortificada en las remotas colinas de Cumbria, y como esa huida no fue mas que el inicio de su lucha.Un testimonio del triunfo del individuo en circunstancias extremas, y una novela de extraordinaria imaginacion y complejidad emocional, " Hijas del Norte " (uno de los cien mejores libros de la decada segun " The Times " ) tiene la intensidad visionaria y la calidad de la gran literatura distopica. Sarah Hall, una de las mejores novelistas jovenes del Reino Unido segun la revista " Granta " , ha ganado en dos ocasiones el Premio Portico, y tambien ha sido galardonada con el Premio Betty Trask, el Premio Commonwealth a la primera novela, el Premio BBC de relato, el Premio John Llewellyn Rhys, el Premio E. M. Forster...

Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.'In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he loves.

Rachel Caine lleva diez años estudiando y protegiendo las manadas de lobos en una reserva india de Idaho. Una interesante oferta de un excéntrico aristócrata de Cumbria, que pretende reintroducir el lobo gris en los campos britanicos, la hace regresar a su tierra natal, donde se reencuentra con una madre problematica que ha condicionado la historia de su particular familia, a la vez que asume una tarea en la que se implica mas alla de lo previsible cuidando de la vida salvaje en la reserva, asi como de la vida inesperada que se va abriendo paso dentro de ella misma.

¿En qué nos parecemos a los lobos? Rachel Caine lleva diez años estudiando y protegiendo las manadas de lobos en una reserva india de Idaho, una labor absorbente que limita su vida personal a escasas amistades y a relaciones esporadicas. Todo va a cambiar cuando recibe una interesante oferta de uno de los hombres mas ricos del Reino Unido, el duque de Annerdale; un excentrico aristocrata de Cumbria, tierra natal de Rachel, que pretende reintroducir el lobo gris en los campos britanicos.Es el proyecto mas ambicioso y atractivo al que se ha enfrentado, aunque el regreso a Cumbria supondra para Rachel el reencuentro con una madre problematica y excentrica, que ha condicionado la historia de su particular familia, asi como implicarse, mas alla de lo previsible, en el cuidado de la vida salvaje en la reserva y de la vida inesperada que se va abriendo paso en su interior. La vuelta de los lobos despierta en la region temores atavicos, viejos mitos y arcaicas supersticiones que se traducen en protestas y presiones, sobre el trasfondo de un marco politico convulso por el proceso de independencia de la vecina Escocia.En "La frontera del lobo", Sarah Hall, considerada por la revista "Granta" como una de las mejores voces de la literatura inglesa del momento, describe con una inusual belleza la vida y el comportamiento de los lobos, asi como el espectacular paisaje que los rodea, convertido en espejo de nuestra propia naturaleza interior, de los lazos que se rompen y se asientan, de nuestras identidades reales o imaginarias... Una alegoria que indaga, mientras el lector avanza con paso seguro en el relato, en la complejidad de la existencia, tanto animal como humana, y en el limite difuso entre la vida salvaje y la civilizacion, dentro y fuera de cada uno de nosotros.Hall evoca sus paisajes con una prosa viva y cautivadora. Una novela con estilo, inteligente y muy amena; de una gran belleza. The Sunday Times

For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. The earls project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health and safety, public outrage and political gain - and the return of the Grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration: impending motherhood, and reconciliation with her estranged family. The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth.

The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. This is Sister''s story of her attempt to escape the repressive regime - from the confines of her Lancaster prison cell she tells of her search for The Carhullan Army, a quasi-mythical commune of ''unofficial'' women rumoured to be living in a remote part of Cumbria.

The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, every movement is monitored and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. This is Sister''s story of her attempt to escape the repressive regime. From the confines of her Lancaster prison cell she tells of her such for The Carhullan Army, a quasi-mythical commune of ''unofficial'' women rumoured to be living in a remote part of Cumbria...

Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching novel, and Hall''s most accomplished work to date.

Opening on the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, on the remote north-west coast of England, The Electric Michelangelo is a novel of love, loss and the art of tattooing. Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, it is an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by one of the most uniquely talented novelists of her generation. Hall''s mellifluous coming-of-age story about an apprentice tattoo artist from the north coast of England who reinvents himself in Coney Island, N.Y., is picaresque in its sweep and lovely in its lush description. This 2004 Booker Prize finalist, Hall''s second novel (after Haweswater) but first U.S. release, follows Cyril Parks from his youth in the 1910s, as he grows up the only son of the widowed proprietor of the Bayview Hotel in Morecambe, through his hard-won apprenticeship to the seedy rogue Eliot Riley, under whose exacting tutelage he becomes a skilled tattoo artist. From his benevolent mother, Reeda Parks, who puts up consumptives at her hotel, he learns not to be disgusted by the spectacle of human misery. (Reeda also performs secret abortions and campaigns for women''s suffrage.) Upon Reeda and Riley''s deaths, Cy takes off for America and plies his trade among the vibrant array of freak shows at Coney Island. By 1940, he meets a local Russian chess champion, Grace, and during the course of their love affair he inscribes 109 eye tattoos all over her body. Hall''s writing is pure joy, especially when describing the childhood seaside shenanigans of Cy and his boy pals.

Cyril Parks, un adolescente de catorce años, vive en la bahía de Morecambe, ciudad balneario del norte de Inglaterra, durante los años de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Huérfano de padre, su madre regenta un hotel, en el que atiende a turistas y clientes enfermos de tuberculosis que acuden en busca del aire del mar. Cy Parks reparte su tiempo entre la ayuda a su madre en los trabajos del hotel y las travesuras que realiza por la playa con sus amigos. Sus dotes para el dibujo le llevan a entrar como aprendiz en el taller de un extraño artista del tauaje, Eliot Riley, un personaje alcoholico y violento que le transmite su arte. A la muerte de su madre y de su maestro, decide emigrar en busca de fortuna y de nuevas experiencias hacia America. Alli recala en el bullicioso paseo maritimo de Coney Island, donde montara su propio negocio de tatuajes con el nombre de El Miguel Angel Electrico. En este ambiente carnavalesco de montañas rusas y espectaculos de rarezas, Cy se enamorara de Grace, una misteriosa inmigrante rusa, acrobata y artista de circo, que le hace un sorprendente encargo: cubrir todo su cuerpo de ojos tatuados. Enormemente atmosferica, exotica y familiar, El Miguel Angel Electrico es una historia de amor y un retrato de exquisita factura sobre personajes fuera de lo comun a ambos lados del Atlantico.

" La vida está en los detalles, y Hall los registra magistralmente. " Times Literary Supplement" La carga erótica de la prosa de Hall y su violenta fuerza física coexisten con la sensación de aislamiento de sus personajes: cada uno es un mundo en si mismo, que guarda su profundidad y su misterio. " The GuardianDe los acantilados y las llanuras cubiertas de brezo de Cumbria con su historia de ardiente violencia, a la velocidad y el calor del verano en Londres, pasando por un lago misteriosamente tranquilo en los bosques de Finlandia, Sarah Hall evoca los paisajes con asombrosa precision y elegancia. Paisajes en ocasiones inquietantes que perfilan unos relatos que siempre habitan en el territorio entre lo natural y lo urbano, lo prosaico y lo surrealista, lo humano y lo animal; entre la intimidad de la naturaleza y la naturaleza de la intimidad. Sus personajes, ya se trate de un ama de casa frustrada que busca un encuentro apasionante, de una joven que contempla la muerte de su novio o de las fobias de una niña, son verdaderos supervivientes azotados entre oscuras pasiones y deseos que afloran a la superficie: el cuerpo humano, entre conflictos emocionales, proporciona el marco sensual de cada drama.Los relatos agrupados bajo el titulo" Madame Zero y la hermosa indiferencia" fueron publicados ...

You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is ma

*WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020*SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZEA Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the YearThe queen of dark short fiction.GuardianAstonishing, miraculous, a gift. Daisy JohnsonThe best short story writer in Britain.SpectatorIn Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. Radical, charged with a transformative, elemental power, each of these stories invites us to stand at the very edge of our possible selves.Includes the story The Grotesques, winner of the BBC Short Story Award, 2020.

It is 1936 in a remote dale in the old, northern county of Westmorland. For centuries the rural community has remained the same and the Lightburn family have been immersed in the harsh hill-farming tradition - unchanged by the advent of modernity. Then a man from the city of Manchester arrives, spokesman for a vast industrial project which will devastate both the landscape and the local community. Mardale will be flooded to create a new reservoir, supplying water to the Midland cities. In the coming year this corner of Lakeland will be evacuated and transformed.Jack Liggett, the Waterworks representative, further compounds the problems faced by the village as he begins a troubled affair with Janet Lightburn. A woman of force and strength of mind, her natural orthodoxy deeply influences him. Finally, in tragic circumstances, a remarkable, desperate act on Janets part attempts to restore the valley to its former state.Told in luminous prose with an intuitive sense for period and place, Haweswater remembers a rural England that has been disappearing for decades. It is a novel about love, obsession and the destruction of a community, told with grace and artistry by a young storyteller of great imaginative and emotional power.

Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching novel, and Halls most accomplished work to date.

She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her lips are thin and her nose is a dark blade. Teeth small and yellow. The lashes of her hazel eyes have thickened and her brows are drawn together, an expression he has never seen, a look that is almost craven.Mrs Fox is the story of a husband who is shocked out of his complacency when his wife undergoes a remarkable transformation. "The poetic use of language, the dexterity and originality of the prose made Sarah Halls Mrs Fox utterly unique," Mariella Frostrup