In the Garden of the Fugitives

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Beschreibung

A literary tour-de-force of power, guilt and obsession - two people stalk each other through the shadowy, tangled web of the past - man and woman caught in a dangerous game of confession, each partly predator and partly prey...<br><br>'It has been almost fifteen years. I've thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.'<br><br>Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget. In his own youth, Royce spent two fateful summers working on a dig in Pompeii with a woman he would later memorialize with a scholarship - the same one that Vita eventually received.<br><br>From opposite sides of the world, Royce and Vita enter into an adversarial dance: an attempt to settle old accounts. Profoundly addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a thrilling psychological examination of what happens when the lines are blurred between victim and predator, between loyalty and obsession.<br><br>Praise for Ceridwen Dovey<br><br>'Strange and richly imagined, haunting and atmospheric... [Dovey] unflinchingly illuminates human nature' The New York Times onOnly the Animals<br><br>'Painfully beautiful, heartbreaking and riveting... Dovey voices the uncomfortable, she speaks the unspeakable... An ambitious book with a fable-like surface and a whole churning world beneath' Guardian onOnly the Animals

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241325179

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

234 x 155 x 23 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Verlag / Hersteller

Hamish Hamilton