ISBN: 9781982144845
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Davies, Carys
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 272
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: The Sunday Times (London) 2020 Novel of the Year “Luminous…a writer to watch—and to savor.” —Oprah Daily From the award-winning author of West and The Redemption of Galen Pike, a “sublime” (The Toronto Star) and propulsive novel that follows an Englishman seeking refuge in a remote hill town in India who gets caught in the crossfire of local tensions.In this “jewel of a novel” (The Observer), Hilary Byrd flees his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in England for a former British hill station in south India. Charmed by the foreignness of his new surroundings and by the familiarity of everything the British have left behind, he finds solace in life’s simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where, after a chance meeting, the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla take Hilary under their wing. The Padre is concerned for Priscilla’s future, and as Hilary’s friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. A “skillful drama of well-meant misunderstandings and cultural divisions” (The Wall Street Journal), The Mission House boldly and imaginatively explores postcolonial ideas in a world fractured between faith and nonbelief, young and old, imperial past and nationalistic present. Tenderly subversive and meticulously crafted, it is a deeply human story of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world. Review “Luminous...Davies is a writer to watch--and to savor.” —Oprah.com, Best books of February “A careful, quiet, skillful drama of well-meant misunderstandings and cultural divisions.” —Wall Street Journal “Davies’ writing is sublime, taking us, in one instance, from a bomb explosion in London to India and saying something about life’s trajectory in a few lines.” —Toronto Star “Carys Davies is unlike anyone else I have ever read. She can say in one sublime sentence what most of us struggle to come up with in a page. And The Mission House is another triumph.” —Rachel Joyce, author of Miss Benson's Beetle “Carys Davies' enthralling fictions carry us across time and continents, and bring interior worlds to life.” —Claire Messud “Lightly yet deftly crafted, hovering in tone somewhere between comedy, tragedy, and fable.” —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review“Davies creates a world that is magical yet daubed with menace. Nuanced characters, lush descriptions of South India, and an incisive look at class and religion make for a rich and layered novel.” —Booklist, STARRED review “This captivating, nuanced tale balances a pervading sense of melancholy with pockets of wry humor. Davies’s masterly elegy is not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review “[Davies has] triumphed again…Subtle with nuance and alive with immediacy…A masterly achievement.” —The Sunday Times (UK) “Brilliantly crafted...Having subtly prepared the ground, Davies finally springs the jaws of her plot, revealing, heartbreakingly, to us...what kind of story this really is.” —The Daily Mail (UK) “Beautifully crafted.” —The Bookseller, Editor's Choice (UK) “[A] fresh take on a familiar trope…Byrd is like so many others, from beatniks to empire loyalists, who form a connection not with real Indians but with a fantasy of India fashioned out of their own ideological prejudices and psychological needs. The Mission House truthfully reveals that the new realities of India will increasingly have their revenge on these tired old romances.” —The Guardian (UK) “A delicately political tale.” —Metro (UK) “Timeless..No words are wasted yet her conjuring of place and character are rich and vivid.” —The Times (UK) “Unsparing and shocking…At first glance a simply told tale, The Mission House has a twisted brilliance that is mesmerizing.”—The Satur
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