Montpelier Parade - Nominiert: Costa First Novel Award 2018, Nominiert: writers guild best first novel 2018, Nominiert: Desmond Elliott Prize 2017, Nominiert: Waverton Good Read Award 2018, Nominiert: Bord G is Energy Irish
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 240 |
| Format | 13,5 x 21,5 x 2,0 cm |
| Trade paperback (UK) | |
| Gewicht | 264 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1911215469 |
| EAN | 9781911215462 |
| Bestell-Nr | 91121546UA |
§'Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.' Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways
The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and she comes down the path toward him. Vera.
Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new, intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is that Vera isn't telling him?
Unfolding in the sea-bright, rain-soaked Dublin of early spring, Montpelier Parade is a beautiful, cinematic novel about desire, longing, grief, hope and the things that remain unspoken. It is about how deeply we can connect with one another, and the choic es we must also make alone.
Rezension:
A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel by Karl Geary. He's yet another masterful younger writer coming through. But these writers aren't just promising, they are arriving fully fledged, like a bunch of Hemingways and Waughs. (A pride of Hemingways?) This is language on the side of life, suggesting life, giving life. Wonderful. Sebastian Barry