The Gun Room by Georgina Harding (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Gun Room by Georgina Harding The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what he has seen in that village is more than he can bear, and he flees.Jonathan drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where there are different kinds of pictures to be taken: peacetime pictures of crowds and subways and cherry blossom. And pictures of a girl with whom he is no longer lost: innumerable pictures of Kumiko, on the streets and in the rain and in the heat of the summer.Yet even here in this alien city, his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a witness to other events buried far deeper in his past. The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral complexity and emotional consequences of the experience of war. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Notes A new title from the Orange-prize shortlisted author, Georgina Harding, The Gun Room is a powerful and devastating exploration of image and memory and the lasting emotional consequences of war. Author Biography Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. She lives on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex. Review Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Michael Ondaatje ... At once delicate and sweeping … A novel about the passage of time, the senselessness of war, and the need to find and preserve meaning, this is a richly satisfying read * Daily Mail on Painter of Silence *This is fiction of the most graceful kind ... a quiet storm of imagery and emotions * Independent on Sunday *Harding writes with exquisite restraint ... Her deceptively simple prose gives a startling beauty to the ordinary, and evokes great depth of suffering * Guardian *Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away -- Esther Freud Promotional A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating new novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding Review Quote This is fiction of the most graceful kind ... a quiet storm of imagery and emotions Promotional "Headline" A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating new novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding Feature Georgina Hardings novels have won universal critical acclaim; The Spy Game was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for the Encore Award, and Painter of Silence was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2012 Details ISBN1408869810 Author Georgina Harding Pages 224 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Year 2017 ISBN-10 1408869810 ISBN-13 9781408869819 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2017-04-20 Media Book DEWEY 823.92 Language English UK Release Date 2017-04-20 NZ Release Date 2017-04-20 Alternative 9781526629609 Audience General AU Release Date 2017-06-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:102207710;

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