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| Availability | Low stock |
| Article number | 9783293005945 |
| Price | 26,00 € |
Description:
It is 1950. Michael, a 10-year-old German orphan boy, arrives in America with a comic book and a chocolate bar in his pocket. A summer by the sea in Cape Cod is supposed to make the horrors of war fade away. Light dances across the dunes and spills over canary-yellow parasols, but neither that nor the family that takes him in alleviates Michael's lostness. It is only through the headstrong Mrs Aitch, an artist who lives by the bay in the shadow of her famous husband, that a new world opens up to him in the unfamiliar idyll.
With powerful brushstrokes, Christine Dwyer Hickey paints a luminous portrait of a summer, a marriage and an unusual friendship - capturing the colours of loneliness, closeness and moments of fleeting happiness.
Review:
"This award-winning book is an absolute gift. Christine Dwyer Hickey plumbs the depths of a long-standing marriage and, at the same time, the competitive struggle of two artists, deals with the traumas of two boys, and provides a perspective on American society as it faces great change with the Korean War approaching. A stunning novel, superbly translated by Uda Strätling, so that the reading is always reminiscent of Hopper's brushstroke - sober and haunting." ("Deutschlandfunk Kultur")
"Artfully formulated, this book reads about loneliness, about non-conformity and hope, love and about marriage, of course. A story like one of Edward Hopper's paintings or all of them together. Calm and unagitated, melancholic and of subtle psychology, the author succeeds in pouring the atmosphere of his painting into words and making it tangible. Something for long hours on the beach or when you long for summer in the slowly brightening days." ("Side Note")
"A deeply empathetic novel, all the more impressive for its simplicity. The deliberately unagitated tone is the perfect counterpoint to the surging emotions the novel conveys. Hickey plays with light and shadow without closing her eyes to darkness. The result is breathtaking." ("Dublin Review of Books")
Hardcover | Unionsverlag | Number of pages 416 | Dimensions (L/W/H) 21.2/13.7/4 cm | Weight 559 g | Translator Uda Strätling | Language German
With powerful brushstrokes, Christine Dwyer Hickey paints a luminous portrait of a summer, a marriage and an unusual friendship - capturing the colours of loneliness, closeness and moments of fleeting happiness.
Review:
"This award-winning book is an absolute gift. Christine Dwyer Hickey plumbs the depths of a long-standing marriage and, at the same time, the competitive struggle of two artists, deals with the traumas of two boys, and provides a perspective on American society as it faces great change with the Korean War approaching. A stunning novel, superbly translated by Uda Strätling, so that the reading is always reminiscent of Hopper's brushstroke - sober and haunting." ("Deutschlandfunk Kultur")
"Artfully formulated, this book reads about loneliness, about non-conformity and hope, love and about marriage, of course. A story like one of Edward Hopper's paintings or all of them together. Calm and unagitated, melancholic and of subtle psychology, the author succeeds in pouring the atmosphere of his painting into words and making it tangible. Something for long hours on the beach or when you long for summer in the slowly brightening days." ("Side Note")
"A deeply empathetic novel, all the more impressive for its simplicity. The deliberately unagitated tone is the perfect counterpoint to the surging emotions the novel conveys. Hickey plays with light and shadow without closing her eyes to darkness. The result is breathtaking." ("Dublin Review of Books")
Hardcover | Unionsverlag | Number of pages 416 | Dimensions (L/W/H) 21.2/13.7/4 cm | Weight 559 g | Translator Uda Strätling | Language German