Description
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, this luminous novel of chance and change begins in 1917, when John lies unable to move or feel his legs after a blast on a battlefield near the River Escaut. As snow falls, his thoughts drift through memories of a chance encounter, a winter night with his lover and his childhood on a distant coast. In 1920, John returns from the war to North Yorkshire, alive but not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to continue living, but ghosts begin to appear in his photographs, carrying messages he cannot understand. The story spans four generations, following moments of connection and consequence as they echo through the twentieth century. Desire, longing, understanding and transcendence set off transformations that unfold decades later. Held is a mysterious, compassionate and intensely beautiful novel about humanity, memory and the ways lives become intertwined.
Information
Author: Michaels Anne
Language: English
Publication date: November 9, 2023
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 220
ISBN/EAN: 9781526659118