Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Country Schoolmaster
A Mystery in 88 Letters
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Verlag:
Canongate Books Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35357506
EAN: 9781837268030
Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 22.70
Beschreibung
FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR. 'One of Australia's finest writers' Daily Telegraph. 'Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness' Jay Parini. 'I stood there holding the hundred-year-old letter with a feeling that was familiar from other archives, other bulging files of dog-eared paper. It was a blood-running-fast, itchy-palm, eyes-wide-open feeling of stumbling on something. A story. '. Rummaging around in the Archives one afternoon, Kate Grenville comes across an innocuous-looking file of letters about a schoolteacher in New South Wales. Intrigued, she keeps reading - and discovers a tale far more curious and complex than she ever could have imagined. Contradictory perspectives on Joseph Connor are everywhere, and many of them eerily sinister. Was he savagely beating the students in his care. Or was he the victim of a small-town vendetta. And what went so terribly wrong between him and his daughter. Grenville simply has to know: was Connor a victim, or a villain. Part colonial cold case, part dance of a writer's imagination, The Country Schoolmaster. is a book like no other. In it, the novelist comes to understand the seductive pleasure of story-making, but also its dangerous limitations.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Kate Grenville
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Taschenbuch
Anzahl Seiten
- 208