The Catastrophist

Zusatztext 'This is a historical novel as well as a love story. But with the news from Congo continuing in the same vein nearly 40 years later! it has a lively currency... Like Muldoon! Bennett has gained a great deal by looking at political strife and engagement from a faraway place! from an oblique angle. To quote that poet's verse about Auden and Yeats! it may be the case that "history's a twisted root/ with art its small! translucent fruit/ and never the other way round" - but the fruit is beautiful and we see the branch better for looking through it' Giles Foden! The Guardian 4th July 'This is a very well-written and well Informationen zum Autor Ronan Bennett was born and brought up in Belfast. He is the author of The Second Prison (which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus prize) and Overthrown by Strangers. He has written screenplays for film and television, including the acclaimed Face, directed by Antionia Bird, and is currently working on an adaptation of Seamus Deane's Booker shortlisted Reading in the Dark. Klappentext A devastating novel of love and desire and one man's search for his soul in a world of violence and political intrigue, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 1998 A devastating novel of love and desire and one man's search for his soul in a world of violence and political intrigue, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 1998 Zusammenfassung A devastating novel of love and desire and one man's search for his soul in a world of violence and political intrigue, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 1998

Product details

• Authors: Ronan Bennett, Bennett Ronan
• Publisher: Review Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.1999
• EAN: 9780747260332
• ISBN: 978-0-7472-6033-2
• No. of pages: 313
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, HISTORY / Africa / Central, Colonialism & imperialism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Colonialism and imperialism, Fiction: general and literary, Biographical fiction, Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Congo, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)