Liebe Lovelybooks-Leser,

Pünktlich zur Erscheinungswoche starten wir mit einem hervorragenden neuen Titel von John Boyne. Viele von euch kennen sicherlich sein Buch The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, das später auch verfilmt wurde.

Sein neuer Roman nimmt uns auf eine Reise nach Irland. Angefangen in den 40er Jahren bis zur Gegenwart zeigt er uns ein Land, dass in teif geprägt hat auf seiner Suche nach Identität und Selbstverwirklichung.

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Book Description
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?

Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.

At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from – and over his three score years and ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more.

In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

Author
John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of ten novels for adults, five for young readers and a collection of short stories. Perhaps best known for his 2006 multi-award-winning book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John’s other novels, notably The Absolutist and A History of Loneliness, have been widely praised and are international bestsellers. In 2015, John chaired the panel for the Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award. The Heart’s Invisible Furies is his most ambitious novel yet.

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Ulrike @ PRH UK

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