Beginning Middle End

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<p><strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2026</strong></p><p><strong>'Mind-expanding and heart-expanding; A summer book for life'</strong> ALI SMITH</p><p><strong>'An instant classic'</strong><em>SERVICE95</em></p><p><strong>'A stunning shape-shifting marvel'</strong>MAX PORTER</p><p><strong>From the award-winning author of <em>Lost Children Archive,</em> Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, love and starting over.</strong></p><p><em>All I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?</em></p><p>A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. <em>How do you begin again,</em> the mother wonders, <em>if you got the beginning wrong</em>? The trip soon becomes a quest for origins - not just through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.</p><p>With her daughter leaving childhood behind and her mother beginning to show signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself at a crossroads. She must now ask herself: How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family's memories made and what happens when they disappear?</p><p>A road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, <em>Beginning Middle End</em> offers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.</p><p><strong>A hottest book of the summer as seen in <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Guardian</em>, <em>Vogue</em>, <em>Elle</em>, <em>AnOther</em>, <em>New Yorker</em>, <em>Glossary</em>, <em>Town &amp; Country</em> and more.</strong></p><p><strong>'What sets Valeria Luiselli's new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness'</strong>COLM TÓIBÍN, author of <em>Long Island</em></p><p><strong>'An af

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780008804817

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

209 x 133 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. UK