Glorious Exploits

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<p><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br>WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024<br>WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2024<br>WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD<br>WINNER OF THE PREMIO GREGOR VON REZZORI<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2024<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN MCGAHERN PRIZE<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 (DEBUT FICTION)<br>A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME<br>A BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK</b><br><b>PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE<i> GUARDIAN, </i>THE<i> INDEPENDENT, </i>THE<i> IRISH TIMES, </i>THE<i> FINANCIAL TIMES </i>AND THE <i>TLS</i></b><br><br><b>'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' <i>Irish Times</i><br><br>'Bold and totally unexpected ... I was hooked from the first page' Douglas Stuart, author of <i>Shuggie Bain</i><br><br>'Brilliant ... Hilarious, moving, and profound' R. F. Kuang, author of <i>Yellowface</i></b><br><br>***<br><br><b>Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction.</b><br><br>Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads.<br><br>They're fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost: they can still recite lines from Greek tragedy when tempted by Lampo and Gelon with goatskins of wine and scraps of food.<br><br>And so an idea is born. Because, after all, you can hate the invaders but still love their poetry.<br><br>It's audacious. It might even be dangerous. But like all the best things in life - love, friendship, art itself - it will reveal the very worst, and the very best, of what humans are capable of.<br><br>What could possibly go wrong?<br><br>***<br><br><b>'Fierce, funny, fast-paced ... Brings the ancient world roaring to life' Joanna Quinn, author of <i>The Whalebone

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241998007

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 127 x 19 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)