Crow Lake

Dieses Debüt ist ein seltenes Juwel. So sorgfältig ausbalanciert und wunderbar geschrieben ist diese Geschichte. Und obwohl es um Opfer, Enttäuschung, emotionale Isolation und Familie geht, ist das Ende versöhnlich.

Informationen zum Autor Mary Lawson 's first novel, Crow Lake , was loved by critics and readers all over the world; it was translated into 26 languages and published in 29 countries. It was a New York Times bestseller , won the McKitterick Prize and spent 75 weeks on the bestseller lists in her native Canada. Her second novel, The Other Side of the Bridge , was longlisted for the Booker Prize and selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. Road Ends , published in 2014, was described by the New York Times as 'tender and surprising . . . a vivid and evocative tale'. A Town Called Solace was an instant bestseller in Canada and longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Mary came to England in the 1960s, and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames. Klappentext After their parents die, the Morrison siblings try to stay together - but one brother's sacrifice changes them all. Kate Morrison has spent years away from Crow Lake, the small northern Ontario farming community where her childhood changed in an instant. After her parents died in an accident, she and her siblings clung to one another while trying to remain a family. Her brilliant brother Matt once seemed destined for a life far beyond the farm. Kate escaped through education and the natural world, but she could not escape the story she had built around Matt's sacrifice or the neighbouring Pye family's violence and secrets. Returning home as an adult, she must look again at what she believed she knew. Crow Lake is a restrained and deeply affecting novel about siblings, rural life, grief, ambition and the cost of survival. 'I've been trying to tell everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each one of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler 'A remarkable novel, utterly gripping...I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it' Joanne Harris 'Full of blossoming insights and emotional acuity...a compelling and serious page-turner' Observer Zusammenfassung This slow-burning story is set in the rural "badlands" of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. It is a universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harboured and driven underground....

Vorwort
The first novel from bestselling, prize-winning Mary Lawson - 'A remarkable novel, utterly gripping...I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it.' Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

Autorentext
Mary Lawson's first novel, Crow Lake, was loved by critics and readers all over the world; it was translated into 26 languages and published in 29 countries. It was a New York Times bestseller, won the McKitterick Prize and spent 75 weeks on the bestseller lists in her native Canada. Her second novel, The Other Side of the Bridge, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. Road Ends, published in 2014, was described by the New York Times as 'tender and surprising . . . a vivid and evocative tale'. A Town Called Solace was an instant bestseller in Canada and longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Mary came to England in the 1960s, and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames.

Klappentext

After their parents die, the Morrison siblings try to stay together - but one brother's sacrifice changes them all.

Kate Morrison has spent years away from Crow Lake, the small northern Ontario farming community where her childhood changed in an instant. After her parents died in an accident, she and her siblings clung to one another while trying to remain a family.

Her brilliant brother Matt once seemed destined for a life far beyond the farm. Kate escaped through education and the natural world, but she could not escape the story she had built around Matt's sacrifice or the neighbouring Pye family's violence and secrets. Returning home as an adult, she must look again at what she believed she knew.

Crow Lake is a restrained and deeply affecting novel about siblings, rural life, grief, ambition and the cost of survival.

'I've been trying to tell everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each one of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler

'A remarkable novel, utterly gripping...I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it' Joanne Harris

'Full of blossoming insights and emotional acuity...a compelling and serious page-turner' Observer

Zusammenfassung
This slow-burning story is set in the rural "badlands" of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. It is a universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harboured and driven underground.