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While the Gods Were Sleeping is a novel about the magnitude and impact of the First World War, the recollections of which are recorded in the notebooks of the elderly Helena. The young Helena is sent to her uncle’s country house before the war, and from here she witnesses scenes of indescribable horror. But it is also where she meets Matthew again, a British Army photographer who she goes on to marry. This is a story not about spectacular events; rather, Mortier is concerned with writing about war, history and the past with great empathy and engagement, and with a mixture of melancholy, qualification and resignation.
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'A beautifully unorthodox novel of the Great War... a kaleidoscopic palette'Independent
'Almost too beautiful a writer... the footprint of Proust visible on every page' Financial Times
'Sumptuously imagined' Independent Best Translated Fiction 2014
'Visceral and heart-stopping...deeply and painfully moving... one of the finest war stories ever written'NewBooks
'Mortier writes so well that you are inclined to see everything else as of secondary importance' NRC Handelsblad
'A monumental, phenomenal book' De Morgen
'If Marcel Proust had a descendant somewhere in Flanders, he must have been born in Ghent.'
--KnackErwin Mortier My Fellow Skin (2000) and Shutterspeed (2002) and the novella All Days Together (2004) quickly established his reputation as one of the leading authors of his generation. For While the Gods Were Sleeping (2008), a novel set against the backdrop of the First World War, he was awarded the prestigious AKO Literature Prize 2009. A consummate stylist, he offers evocative descriptions that bring past worlds brilliantly to life.
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- EditorePushkin Pr Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2014
- ISBN 10 1782270175
- ISBN 13 9781782270171
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine364
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