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While the Gods Were Sleeping by Mortier, Erwin
by Mortier, Erwin | PB | LikeNew
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781782270799
- Book Title
- While the Gods Were Sleeping
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- War & Military, Literary, Historical
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 356 Pages
About this product
Product Information
The story of the First World War told through the eyes of Helena, a young woman in love with a British soldier, who in her diaries tries to master words in order to describe the indescribable .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
1782270795
ISBN-13
9781782270799
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212062294
Product Key Features
Book Title
While the Gods Were Sleeping
Number of Pages
356 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
War & Military, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Mortier is superb. . . The push and pull of ugliness and beauty Helena witnessed plays into her conviction about humanity's random and godless state of existence, as the title suggests: 'give us back our mealy-mouthed petit-bourgeois world,' she writes, knowing that such comforts have been stripped from her. . . [an] ultimately poised consideration of war's long impact on feeling and faith." -- Kirkus Reviews "Like Michael Ondaatje and Anne Michaels, Erwin Mortier, the 49-year old Flemish writer whose four novels have just been published in North America, is a poetic prose artist. Unlike Ondaatje and Michaels, whose stock has fallen rather sharply in the last decade, Mortier writes stories that stick and characters whose oblique relationship to normalcy lodge themselves in our minds like splinters.... a quintessential and literally definitive work of Belgian literature" -- The National Post Praise from the UK: "A beautifully unorthodox novel of the Great War... a kaleidoscopic palette." -- Independent "Almost too beautiful a writer... the footprint of Proust visible on every page." -- Financial Times "Sumptuously imagined." -- Independent Best Translated Fiction 2014 "Visceral and heart-stopping...deeply and painfully moving... one of the finest war stories ever written." -- NewBooks "Sumptuously lyrical." -- We Love this Book Other praise from Europe: "Mortier writes so well that you are inclined to see everything else as of secondary importance." -- NRC Handelsblad "A monumental, phenomenal book." -- De Morgen "Splendid control of language." -- de Volkskrant "The author skillfully reconstructs the crepuscular atmosphere of an era that ends with the shipwreck of a civilization, but, paradoxically, also with the sensual awakening of a young girl." -- Figaro "Threads the heavy folds of history with the needle of poetic sensibility." -- Livres hebdo "'Multi-layered' is too bland a word for this subtle, sophisticated novel, which moves between different times with such aplomb that the reader never loses the thread." -- Buchmarkt From the Hardcover edition., "Mortier is superb. . . The push and pull of ugliness and beauty Helena witnessed plays into her conviction about humanity's random and godless state of existence, as the title suggests: 'give us back our mealy-mouthed petit-bourgeois world,' she writes, knowing that such comforts have been stripped from her. . . [an] ultimately poised consideration of war's long impact on feeling and faith." -- Kirkus Reviews Praise from the UK: "A beautifully unorthodox novel of the Great War... a kaleidoscopic palette." -- Independent "Almost too beautiful a writer... the footprint of Proust visible on every page." -- Financial Times "Sumptuously imagined." -- Independent Best Translated Fiction 2014 "Visceral and heart-stopping...deeply and painfully moving... one of the finest war stories ever written." -- NewBooks "Sumptuously lyrical." -- We Love this Book Other praise from Europe: "Mortier writes so well that you are inclined to see everything else as of secondary importance." -- NRC Handelsblad "A monumental, phenomenal book." -- De Morgen "Splendid control of language." -- de Volkskrant "The author skillfully reconstructs the crepuscular atmosphere of an era that ends with the shipwreck of a civilization, but, paradoxically, also with the sensual awakening of a young girl." -- Figaro "Threads the heavy folds of history with the needle of poetic sensibility." -- Livres hebdo "'Multi-layered' is too bland a word for this subtle, sophisticated novel, which moves between different times with such aplomb that the reader never loses the thread." -- Buchmarkt From the Hardcover edition.
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
839.3137
Lc Classification Number
Pt6466.23.O676
Copyright Date
2016
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