The Burning Book
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Maggie Gee Libri
1 gennaio 1948
Maggie Gee scrive nella vasta tradizione modernista, con libri caratterizzati da un forte senso generale di schema e significato. Il suo lavoro possiede sia consapevolezza politica che sociale, rivolgendo uno sguardo satirico alla società contemporanea pur mantenendo affetto per i suoi personaggi e un'apprezzamento non ironico per la bellezza del mondo naturale. Gee esplora dilemmi umani individuali, come il conflitto tra altruismo assoluto ed egoismo, ed esamina la relazione dell'umanità con la natura e il regno animale in generale. I suoi romanzi approfondiscono frequentemente temi come il razzismo, il futuro e il posto della specie umana nell'ambiente.
A new novel from critically acclaimed British author Maggie Gee. A topical and deeply moving meditation on belonging, set in the near future, against a backdrop of migration pressures, climate change and an increasing isolationist mood in the UK.
Alfred White, a London park-keeper, rules his home with a mixture of ferocity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. When Alfred collapses on duty one day, they rush to be with him. His daughter's partner, Elroy, a black social-worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people.
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical 'Last Days' sect is recruiting thousands ... husband Harold listens to jazz and their ditsy teenage daughter Lola fights capitalism by bunking off school. Shirley takes her twin boys to the zoo. The Government - eager to detract attention from a foreign war it has waged - announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extraordinary climax that ensues.
The British Council’s annual anthology of new writing showcases the best in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from writers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Commonwealth. This new selection has been chosen by the novelists Bernardine Evaristo ( The Emperor's Babe ) and Maggie Gee ( The White Family , shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction). The last volume included Kirsty Gunn, Michel Faber, Marina Warner, Romesh Gunesekera, Hermione Lee, and Esther Freud. As always, some of the best names in English writing are sure to be included?as well as the delight of the new.
