Howard Norman: Come to the Window, Gebunden
Come to the Window
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company, 07/2024
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781324076339
- Item number:
- 11742765
- Volume:
- 208 Pages
- Weight:
- 318 g
- Format:
- 221 x 147 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 9.7.2024
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
It's 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama-harrowing and provocative-slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her husband hours after their wedding and thrusts the revolver into the blowhole of a beached whale.
Crime reporter Toby Havenshaw is dispatched by the Halifax Evening Mail to cover the hearing, and his diary subsequently follows the surprising twists and turns of Elizabeth Frame's flight from the law, accompanied as she is by a love-besotted court stenographer. But Toby's diary also paints a vivid and deeply affecting portrait of his marriage to Amelia, a surgeon just returned from the front lines in France and Belgium. When a child is born to Elizabeth Frame on the lam, Amelia is drawn into events in ways she could never have imagined. And then everything changes.
Come to the Window explores a question both universal and timeless: How does one recover hope in a time of great bewilderment and grief?
Biography
Howard Norman lebt mit seiner Familie in Washington, D.C. und Vermont. Er unterrichtet an der Universität von Maryland. 1987 wurde er für seinen Roman "The Bird Artist" (dt. "Das Fresco") für den "National Book Award" nominiert.
