Name: After the Fire, A Still Small Voice By Evie Wyld
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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Summary

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own.

Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his neighbors and their precocious young daughter, Sal, he discovers the community has fresh wounds of its own. A girl is missing, and when Sal too disappears, suspicion falls on Frank.

Decades earlier, Leon tries to hold together his family's cake shop as their suburban life crumbles in the aftermath of the Korean War. When war breaks out again, Leon must go from sculpting sugar figurines to killing young men as a conscript in the Vietnam War.

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Reviews

Just sometimes, a book is so complete, so compelling and potent, that you are fearful of breaking its hold. This is one: a novel about (as its title might suggest) devastating damage and the humanity that, almost unfathomably, remains...with awesome skill and whiplash wit, Evie Wyld knits together past and present, with tension building all the time. In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two if the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail *
Wyld sympathetically explores the blight of war and violence on three generations of a working-class Australian family -- Gabriel Byng * New Statesman *
Wyld's first novel is a remarkable achievement: a potent and compelling exploration of the connections between father and son, and the legacy of violence and repression * bookmunch.wordpress.com/ *
Superb first novel -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Wyld has a feel for beauty and for the ugliness of inherited pain * The New Yorker *

About Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld's debut novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, was shortlisted for the Impac Prize and awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her second, All the Birds, Singing, won the Miles Franklin Prize, the Encore Prize and the EU Prize for Literature, and shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel awards. In 2013 she was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, having previously been named by the BBC as one of the twelve best new British writers. She lives in Peckham.

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GOR001865215

ISBN 13

9780099535836

ISBN 10

0099535831

Title

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

Author

Evie Wyld

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20100422

Number of pages

304

Prizes

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2009 Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011 Short-listed for Orange Award for New Writers 2010

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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Evie Wyld

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

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