Harrow

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction<BR><BR>A Sunday Times Book of the Year<BR>A Times Paperback of the Year <BR><BR>In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic.<BR><BR>'When the book was over, I missed the awful, cleansing darkness of its eyes upon me ' New Yorker Books of the Year 2021<BR><BR>'This is the apocalypse as reimagined by a committee headed by Dalí, Kafka and Yorgos Lanthimos.' Observer<BR><BR>Winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction<BR><BR>Shortlisted for the 2022 LA Times Prize<BR><BR>Longlisted for the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award<BR><BR>Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment, then came back to life. After Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and her mother disappears, she ranges across the dead landscape and finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call 'Big Girl'.<BR><BR>In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty.<BR><BR>Rivetingly strange and delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is a tale of paradise lost and the reasons to try and recover something of it.