Stone Yard Devotional

The 'exquisite, wrenching' novel [New York Times], shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

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Beschreibung

⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐<br>'The fact that Stone Yard Devotional not only stays aloft but soars would seem to deny the laws of literary physics' <br>Ron Charles, Washington Post<br><br>'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life' <br>Sunday Times<br><br>'Exquisite, wrenching' <br>New York Times<br><br>'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel' <br>Guardian<br><br>'It leaves the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged' <br>Anne Enright<br><br>Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia.<br><br>But disquiet soon interrupts this secluded life. First, the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before are returned to the monastery, resurfacing years of grief and pain. And then, an unexpected and troubling visitor plunges the narrator further into her past...<br><br>⭐ A Book of the Year 2025 for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Public Library<br> ⭐ A Book of the Year 2024 for the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC and BookRiot<br>⭐ Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award⭐ Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year⭐ Shortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction⭐ Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399724388

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 128 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.