{"product_id":"the-stories-jane-gardam","title":"The Stories (Jane Gardam)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Pure delight' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThroughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of corners: from Wimbledon gardens and cold churches, from London buses and industrial backstreets. A mother watching her children on the beach dreams of a long-lost lover, an abandoned army wife sees a ghost at a moorland gate, a translator adrift in Geneva is haunted by the unspeakable manifestation of her own fears, and a colonial servant wreaks a delicious revenge on her monstrous masters. Gardam's cast is wide and wonderful, saints and mystics, trollops and curmudgeons, yearning mothers and lost children, beloved figures such as Old Filth and less familiar - but equally unforgettable - characters like Signor Settimo, the sad-eyed provincial photographer marooned in Shipley or Florrie Ironside, the ferocious matron he seduces. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a mischievous ear for dialogue, a glittering eye for detail and a capacious understanding of the vagaries of the human heart, Jane Gardam's stories will captivate, sadden and delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eJane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread\/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of the Tambourine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hollow Land\u003c\/i\u003e. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: \u003ci\u003eBlack Faces, White Faces\u003c\/i\u003e (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); \u003ci\u003eThe Pangs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (Katherine Mansfield Prize); \u003ci\u003eGoing into a Dark House\u003c\/i\u003e (Silver Pen Award from PEN); \u003ci\u003eMissing the Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe People on Privilege Hill\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eGod on the Rocks\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eFaith Fox\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Flight of the Maidens\u003c\/i\u003e; the bestselling \u003ci\u003eOld Filth\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the Wooden Hat\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLast Friends\u003c\/i\u003e. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 496 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65901662044509,"sku":"K055854016","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/5585401600001A.jpg?v=1789210248","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-stories-jane-gardam","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}