Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

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Beschreibung

<p><b>Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize<br>Shortlisted: <i>Sunday Times </i>Young Writer of the Year - Goldsmiths Prize - Betty Trask Prize<br>Longlisted: Booker Prize - Dylan Thomas Prize<br><br><i>Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies</i> is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer's debut is a symphonic journey through one woman's body: a celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.<br><br>'Original, memorable, shimmering' - Sarah Moss, author of <i>Ghost Wall</i></b><br><br>Lia has only one child, Iris; her magical, awkward, endlessly creative daughter who has just entered the battleground of her teenage years. Lia and Iris have always been close, but there is a war playing out inside Lia's body, too, and everything is about to change.<br><br>As she confronts what might be the end, memories of her own childhood and a passionate love affair come rushing into her present, unearthing buried secrets and her family's deepest fears. But Lia still has hope . . . for more time, for more love, for more Iris.<br><br><b><i>The Sunday Times </i>Book of the Year<br>'Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive' - <i>The Guardian</i><br>'Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic' - Daisy Johnson, author of <i>Everything, Under</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529069389

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 128 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan