MICHAELS ANNE – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:47:26 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png MICHAELS ANNE – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 Held https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/narrativa-in-inglese/held-9781526659125/ Wed, 14 May 2025 21:47:24 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=21923 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls.

1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living.

But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.

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