Be Near Me von Andrew O'Hagan

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"Always trust a stranger," said David's mother when he returned from Rome. "It's the people you know who let you down."Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness--his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present.In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.

"Always trust a stranger," said David's mother when he returned from Rome. "It's the people you know who let you down."Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness--his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present.In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.

Autor O'Hagan, Andrew
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
Seitenangabe 320 S.
Lieferstatus Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen
Ausgabekennzeichen Englisch
Abbildungen Paperback
Masse H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.9 cm 405 g
Verlag Houghton Mifflin

Über den Autor Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan wurde in Glasgow geboren. Er war mehrfach für den Booker Prize nominiert, wurde von Granta 2003 zu einem der besten jungen britischen Schriftsteller gewählt, gewann den E.M. Forster Prize der American Academy of Arts and Letters . Er ist Editor-at-Large bei der London Review of Books und Fellow der Royal Society of Literature .  Manfred Allié, geboren 1955 in Marburg, übersetzt seit über dreißig Jahren Literatur, vieles davon zusammen mit seiner Frau Gabriele Kempf-Allié. Gemeinsam haben sie u.a. Jane Austen, Ralph Ellison, Joseph O'Connor, Richard Powers und Yann Martel übersetzt. Die beiden leben in der Eifel.

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