Glorious Exploits - Ferdia Lennon Kartoniert (TB)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2025 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE IRISH TIMES, THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE TLS 'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times 'Bold and totally unexpected ... I was hooked from the first page' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain 'Brilliant ... Hilarious, moving, and profound' R. F. Kuang, author of Yellowface *** Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: feckless, jobless, in need of a distraction. Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads. They're fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost: they can still recite lines from Greek tragedy when tempted by Lampo and Gelon with goatskins of wine and scraps of food. And so an idea is born. Because, after all, you can hate the invaders but still love their poetry. It's audacious. It might even be dangerous. But like all the best things in life - love, friendship, art itself - it will reveal the very worst, and the very best, of what humans are capable of. What could possibly go wrong? *** 'Fierce, funny, fast-paced ... Brings the ancient world roaring to life' Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre 'Love, war, poetry, reckless ambition, terrible failure, and glorious triumph ... A delicious treat of a read. I loved it' Jon McGregor, author of Lean Fall Stand Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024 EAN: 9780241667224 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 18.01.2024 Autoren: Lennon, Ferdia Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 279 Themenüberschrift: FICTION / Historical / Ancient Keyword: prize; historical fiction; best novels; new books; ireland; irish; shakespeare; ancient history; man booker; ancient greece; greek tragedy; waterstones; in memoriam; cormac mccarthy; patrick de witt; sicily; peloponnesian war; greek plays; colin barrett; hilary mantel; homer; trojan women; medea; euripides; plutarch; jon mcgregor; ian mcguire; kevin barry; contemporary; top 10 fiction; literary fiction; top ten fiction; herodotus histories; historical; rome; italy; historical novels Fachschema: Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Historischer Roman, Erzählung~Griechenland (Antike) / Roman, Erzählung~Irische Belletristik / Historischer Roman, Erzählung~Sizilien / Roman, Erzählung Fachkategorie: Historischer Roman Imprint-Titels: Fig Tree Länge: 235 mm Breite: 150 mm Höhe: 27 mm Gewicht: 357 gr Produktform: Kartoniert