The Mercies
(Sprache: Englisch)
Inspired by real historical events, The Mercies is a breathtaking story of love, fear and obsession, and the strength and courage of women.
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Inspired by real historical events, The Mercies is a breathtaking story of love, fear and obsession, and the strength and courage of women.
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The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.For readers of Circe and The Handmaid's Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.
Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vardø is now a place of women.
Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .
'Beautiful and chilling' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe
'Took my breath away' - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
Autoren-Porträt von Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Millwood Hargrave, KiranKiran Millwood Hargrave (b. 1990) is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. The Mercies is her first novel for adults. Her bestselling works for children include The Girl of Ink & Stars and have won numerous awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year. They have also been shortlisted for prizes such as the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Best Story Award and the Foyles Book of the Year Award. The Mercies is is her first novel for adults. Kiran lives by the river in Oxford, with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, and their rescue cat, Luna.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2020, Air Iri OME, 352 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1529005124
- ISBN-13: 9781529005127
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.01.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The Mercies is among the best novels I've read in years. In addition to its beautiful writing, its subject matter is both enduring and timely New York Times Book Review
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