MORE THAN I LOVE MY LIFE
Εκδότης Vintage , ISBN 9781787332942
From the winner of the International Booker Prize and one of the finest
writers at work today, an epic and deeply moving novel about the legacy
of war and trauma on three generationsof women
On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili, along with the entire community, is
celebrating the 90th birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a
sprawling and tight-knit family. Onto the scene enters Nina: the iron-willed
daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili
when she was still a baby.
Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates the gripping, heartwrenching story that unfolds, in which mother, daughter and grandmother are
forced to confront the past head-on. Together with Rafael - father to Gili, lover to
Nina and step-son to Vera - the three women embark on an epic journey to the
desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five
decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is
here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral
dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.
More Than I Love My Life is a grand-scale and sweeping story about the power
of love and loving with courage. A novel driven by faith in humanity even in our
darkest moments, it asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a
woman's duty to herself and to her children.
Περίληψη
From the winner of the International Booker Prize and one of the finest
writers at work today, an epic and deeply moving novel about the legacy
of war and trauma on three generationsof women
On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili, along with the entire community, is
celebrating the 90th birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a
sprawling and tight-knit family. Onto the scene enters Nina: the iron-willed
daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili
when she was still a baby.
Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates the gripping, heartwrenching story that unfolds, in which mother, daughter and grandmother are
forced to confront the past head-on. Together with Rafael - father to Gili, lover to
Nina and step-son to Vera - the three women embark on an epic journey to the
desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five
decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is
here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral
dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.
More Than I Love My Life is a grand-scale and sweeping story about the power
of love and loving with courage. A novel driven by faith in humanity even in our
darkest moments, it asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a
woman's duty to herself and to her children.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Grossman, David, 1954-
- Eκδότης Vintage
- ISBN 9781787332942
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100075522
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2021
- Σελίδες 208
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 350 gr
