"Особенный участок" - роман, который происходит в двух эпохах: XVII веке и конце XX века. Книга начинается с описания строительства стены вокруг усадьбы Уичвуд, которую построил ландшафтный архитектор мистер Норрис. Уичвуд - это закрытый мир, где каждый скрывает что-то свое после десятилетий гражданской войны, где диссиденты прячутся в лесу, любовники задерживаются в тайных садах, а мигранты, бегущие от чумы, отворачиваются от ворот. Три века спустя, в Берлине возводится другая стена, а происходящее в Уичвуде тенистым летним уик-эндом тесно связано с новостями о исторических изменениях. Маленькая девочка Нелл все наблюдает. Нелл вырастает, а Уичвуд нарушается. У озера проходит поп-фестиваль, в столовой снимает телевизионная съемочная группа, а великий шторм надвигается на усадьбу. По мере того, как падает Берлинская стена, фатва сигнализирует о другой идеологической линии разделения, и беженец ищет убежище в Уичвуде. Роман наполнен загадками и тайнами, и повествует о том, как те, кто ставят стены между собой и другими, рискуют оказаться внутри тюрьмы своих собственных стен.
Lucy Hughes-Hallet\'s new novel, PeculiarGround, weaves together historical elements— Britain in the early 18th century, North America during World War II, Ruskin-esque turn-of-the-century landscapes—but retains scale and satirical impact.
The setting is Sator Valley, an entombed world divided by two impenetrable walls, between the turbulent tumult of the eighteenth century and the apocalyptic fears of contemporary America, via two centuries of political turmoil, as Brexit plays out one peak season. Like past/present distortions, truly shocking and unsettling nostalgia lurks under every carefully planted crystal, ancient British coffeemaker, strange Northern accent, and hidden Yoruba roots.
An entire wall built somewhere around a sprawling mansion and saturated in sexual energy, Peculiar(Basic, weird, unfamiliar; unconventional); Ground conveys how easy it is for past traumas, political detritus, and currents of extreme cultural influence to ferment noxious brews, visionary madness, and active mutations of the English tongue. Keys that unlock the pages are the narration itself, a first-person voice that bounces around Wychwood and Berlin, becoming caught between both its historic vastness and geographical tactfulness. Hughes-Hallett, on careening page turns even when you know where to look, weaving a chaotic labour of love into some of the most compelling, brilliant prose of the last couple of years.
Электронная Книга «Peculiar Ground» написана автором Lucy Hughes-Hallett в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780008126537
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‘One of the best novels of the year so far’ The TimesA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Unlike anything I’ve read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It’s wonderful’ Tessa Hadley‘I just enjoyed it so very much’ Philip PullmanIt is the 17th century and a wall is being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, landscape-maker. A world where everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war, where dissidents shelter in the forest, lovers linger in secret gardens, and migrants, fleeing the plague, are turned away from the gate.Three centuries later, another wall goes up overnight, dividing Berlin, while at Wychwood, over one hot, languorous weekend, erotic entanglements are shadowed by news of historic change. A little girl, Nell, observes all.Nell grows up and Wychwood is invaded. There is a pop festival by the lake, a TV crew in the dining room and a Great Storm brewing. As the Berlin wall comes down, a fatwa signals a different ideological faultline and a refugee seeks safety in Wychwood.From the multi-award-winning author of The Pike comes a breathtakingly ambitious, beautiful and timely novel about game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats, about young love and the pathos of aging, and about how those who wall others out risk finding themselves walled in.
