The Safekeep
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* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION * Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, and Aspen Words Literary Prize ...
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* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION * Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, and Aspen Words Literary Prize *, A Best Book of 2024: The New York Times , The Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , Time , The Economist , The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Kirkus Reviews , The Independent , BookPage , The Sunday Times (London) ',RemarkableCompellingFine and tautIndelible.' The New York Times *, ',Moving, unnerving, and deeply sexy.' Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring *, ',A brilliant debut, as multi-faceted as a gem.' Kirkus Reviews A ',razor-sharp, perfectly plotted' ( The Sunday Times , London) tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past. A house is a precious thing... It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should beled by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel's doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season. Eva is Isabel's antithesis: she sleeps late, walks loudly through the house, and touches things she shouldn't. In response, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the housea spoon, a knife, a bowlIsabel's suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel's paranoia gives way to infatuation, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Evanor the house in which they liveare what they seem. Mysterious, sophisticated, sensual, and infused with intrigue, atmosphere, and sex, The Safekeep is ',a brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history, and to one's own desires' ( The Guardian ).
Detaljer
Forlag
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN
9781668066195
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
272
Udgivelsesdato
28-05-2024
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3216893
EAN nr.
9781668066195
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
229
Bredde (mm)
152
Længde (mm)
21
Vægt (g)
294
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