The Elements
| Bezeichnung | Wert |
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| Titel |
The Elements
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| Verfasserangabe |
Boyne, John
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| Medienart | |
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| Person | |
| Verlag | |
| Ort |
London
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| Jahr | |
| Umfang |
499 Seiten
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| ISBN13 |
978-0-85752-888-9
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| Schlagwort | |
| Annotation |
John Boyne's acclaimed quartet of Water, Earth, Fire and Air come together at last.
Human life is governed by the elements - water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us.
In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction: a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim.
From a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives.
Boyne's most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.
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| Übersetzung |
Englisch
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| Trägermedium |
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