Alive in the Merciful Country
- Auteur: A.L. Kennedy (Schotland)
- Soort boek: Schotse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Saraband
- Verschijnt: 9 januari 2025
- Omvang: 416 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 18,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
A.L. Kennedy Alive in the Merciful Country review, recensie en informatie
- “Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading.” (Sunday Times)
- “It seems everything [Kennedy] touches turns to art… she continues to impress with her psychological fearlessness and breathtaking affection for language.” (New York Times)
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Schotse schrijfster A.L. Kennedy
Teaching nine-year-olds on Zoom. A relationship interrupted by enforced distance. A teenaged son who cannot leave the house. Anna McCormick is already struggling to cope with the unwanted twists 2020 has served up. But when an unstamped envelope arrives overnight, her past begins to cast its own long shadow on the present.
With an uncaring government compounding her woes and a hostile threat drawing closer, Anna must dig deep to keep hope alive for herself and those around her.
This is a twisty, heart-racing page-turner and viscerally rendered portrayal of abuse of power by the state, by the police and by the villains much closer to home.
A.L. Kennedy was born 22 October 1967 in Dundee, Scotland. She now divides her time between Scotland and the East Midlands. She has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Award, the Costa Prize, the Heinrich Heine Preis, the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rees Prize. She has twice been included on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She has written ten novels, one of which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, six short story collections, three books of non-fiction and three books for children. She also performs occasionally in one-person shows and as a stand-up comic.