Angela Graham A City Burning recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de verhalenbundel. Op 21 oktober2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Seren Books de verhalenbundel van de Welsh filmmaker en schrijfster Angela Graham.
Angela Graham A City Burning Recensie en Informatie
Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de verhalenbundel A City Burning. Het boek is geschreven door Angela Graham. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van het boek met twintig verhalen van de filmmaker en schrijfster uit Wales Angela Graham.
A City Burning
- Schrijfster: Angela Graham (Wales)
- Soort boek: verhalen
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Seren Books
- Verschijnt: 21 oktober 2020
- Omvang: 240 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback
Flaptekst van de verhalenbundel van Angela Graham
In the twenty-six stories in A City Burning, set in Wales, Northern Ireland and Italy, children and adults face, in the flames of personal tragedy, moments of potential transformation. On the threshold of their futures each must make a choice: how to live in this new ‘now’. Some of these moments occur in mundane circumstances, others amidst tragedy or drama.
Waiting for the return of demoralized prisoners of war, an Italian is offered a shocking way to rebuild his world; on the Antrim coastline a man is pushed to the edge by the demons of his neurotic family; in the south Wales valleys during the pandemic a domiciliary carer flounders in the front line of the workers’ struggle. A teenager disheartened by a Covid future; a terrorist in love; a vindictive clergyman; an actor interrogating her role for light on her own hampered life. They are ordinary people caught at crisis point, each rendered with a fierce perception of injustice and brutality.
But there is lyricism too, wry humour and a sharp engagement with language – Italian, Ulster Scots, Welsh. As well as meeting protagonists in their own countries, we find the Irish in Italy, the Italians in Wales, the Welsh in Northern Ireland.
A cinematic sense of focus and place grounds the action: a dry-as-dust bookshop provides a sensual encounter stimulated by the dead; two young priests in a Vatican kitchen collide erotically; nemesis strikes − from the skies − in a hospital corridor.
With a virtuoso control of tone, by turns elegiac, comic, lyrical, philosophical, A City Burning examines power of all types, exploring conflicts between political allegiances; between autonomy and intimacy; emotional display and concealment; resistance versus acceptance. The result is a deeply human book full of hauntingly memorable characters and narratives.
