{"product_id":"the-gun-room-georgina-harding","title":"The Gun Room (Georgina Harding)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Georgina Harding's novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young photographer takes 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 Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear...  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe flees to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom - and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. Yet even here his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried deep in his past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first in Harding's cycle of acclaimed novels on themes of witness, memory and silence, \u003ci\u003eThe Gun Room \u003c\/i\u003eis beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eGeorgina Harding is the author of five previous novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Solitude of Thomas Cave\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpy Game\u003c\/i\u003e, a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore  Award, \u003ci\u003ePainter of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Gun Room\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLand of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Living\u003c\/i\u003e. Together, \u003ci\u003eThe Gun Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLand of the Living\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarvest \u003c\/i\u003emake up the critically acclaimed  Harvest Cycle. In 2021, her short story 'Night Train' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Georgina lives most of the time on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 224 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65899753111901,"sku":"K060373264","price":10.2,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/6037326400001A.jpg?v=1789191565","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-gun-room-georgina-harding","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}