The Morningside

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<b>“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (<i>People</i>) from the critically beloved, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Tiger’s Wife</i> and <i>Inland<br></i></b><br><b>“I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial divisions—together more dystopian than any dystopian novel—the book surprised me most with its undercurrent of hope.”—Jessamine Chan, author of <i>The School for Good Mothers, </i>in <i>The New York Times </i>(Editors’ Choice)</b><br><b><br>A <i>LIT HUB </i>AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE</b><br><br><i>There’s the world you can see. And then there’s the one you can’t. Welcome to the Morningside.</i><br><br>After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place called Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family’s past, and because the once-vibrant city where she lives is now half-underwater. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her early years, nor does she fully understand why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give the young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia’s lonely and impoverished reality.<br><br>Enchanted by Ena’s stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building: She has her own elevator entrance and

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781984855503

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

218 x 145 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House Publishing Group