Aftershocks by Anne Fine
A family mix-up means Louie has to tag along with his engineer father and his team as they head for a routine job in the farthest flung and most neglected province of the Federation. A massive earthquake, with ensuing tsunami, devastates the entire isolated coastal region, laying bare the other-worldly manner in which the silent and strange Endlanders deal with life, death and the hinterlands of memory and loss. Their curious and unsettling ways raise ghosts for Louie, who has recently lost his own brother. This modern fable – part ghost-story, part coming-of-age novel and part astute social and family observation – explores the ways in which grief can affect not only individuals, but communities at large.a weird and wonderful triumph; a challenging, powerful book – this is Fine at her very best
The Times Children's Book of the Week, February 2022
-- Alex O'Connell * The Times *This is a book with the potential to heal. – Sunday Times Book of the Week
-- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *A remarkable novel which defies easy categorisation.
Aftershocks is a book of contradictions. It is at once familiar, yet otherworldly. It is a ghost story yet is rooted in real and highly relatable emotions. It's ambition and scope are large, yet at once it explores the intimacy of personal grief. Books of the Year 2022
* Books for Keeps *
Former Children's Laureate Anne Fine has written over seventy books for children and won many prizes and accolades, including twice winning the Carnegie Medal. She began to write after the birth of her first child, when she was unable to get to the library to change her books in a snowstorm, and she hasn't stopped since. Her writing very often tackles series social issues (Anne studied Politics and History at university) but can also be laugh-out-loud funny and her range is demonstrated by the successes of Madam Doubtfire and Goggle Eyes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910646823 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910646822 |
| Titel | Aftershocks |
| Autor | Anne Fine |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Old Barn Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-09-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 288 |
| Preise | Short-listed for NE Teen Books Award (UK)., Short-listed for Badger Book Awards: Best New Books (UK)., Long-listed for York Book Award (UK)., Nominated for Yoto Carnegie Prize for Writing (UK). |
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