Lucy Beckett

The Year of Thamar's Book

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The Year of Thamar's Book is set in the months from the spring of 2015 to the summer of 2016. An elderly recluse living in a quiet village in Burgundy discovers he is not as alone in the world as he has for many years assumed. His grandson, well-educated but ignorant, comes to the village to help the old man make a book of the pile of chaotic manuscript that tells the story of a difficult, painful yet luminous life. As he writes, and listens, the young man learns a good deal, and begins to comprehend not only how French colonial history and the horrors of war in Alge… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-85244-935-6
EAN: 9780852449356
Produktnummer: 27796174
Verlag: Gracewing Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 520 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D3.0 cm 790 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 790

Über den Autor

LUCY BECKETT is a novelist, historian and literary critic. She grew up in Yorkshire, was educated at Cambridge University, and, with her husband, the musicologist John Warrack, has lived back in Yorkshire for nearly fifty years. She taught for many years at Ampleforth College, and has written a number of books of different kinds. She has four children and ten grandchildren.