The Vintner's Luck

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Knox is the author of five books, including the international success Black Oxen , but The Vintner's Luck was the first to be published outside her native New Zealand. It met great critical and popular success, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and turned into a film in 2009. She is married and lives with her family in Wellington. Klappentext Reissue with new jacket. Zusammenfassung Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

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An unconventional novel which engages grand and glorious themes on an intimate, human scale.

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

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Reissue with new jacket.

Résumé
Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.