The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger
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Artikel-Nr:
9781844086061
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.01.2010
Seiten:
501
Autor:
Sarah Waters
Gewicht:
405 g
Format:
197x127x35 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Sarah Waters, who was born in Wales, has been described as 'one of the best storytellers alive today' (Matt Thorne, Independent), and there can be no doubt that readers and critics alike have been gripped by her extraordinary imagination. Sarah Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, won a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her next novel, Affinity, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The former also won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. The Little Stranger was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and The Paying Guests was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize in 2015. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television, The Little Stranger was adapted as a film by Lenny Abrahamson, and Fingersmith inspired Park Chan-wook's film, The Handmaiden. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year five times: by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers, Glamour Magazine Awards and the Stonewall Awards. In 2019 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.

Eine Geistergeschichte vor historischem Hintergrund.
Während eines trockenen Sommers in ländlichen Warwickshire der Nachkriegszeit, wird ein Arzt zu einem Patienten auf Hundreds Hall gerufen. Stammsitz der Ayres Familie seit über zwei Jahrhunderten, ist das georgische Haus, einst groß und prachtvoll, jetzt im Niedergang: sein Mauerwerk bröckelt, seine Gärten überwuchert von Unkraut.
Aber wird die Famile Ayres wirklich von mehr heimgesucht, als dem langsamen Untergang ihrer Art zu leben?
Noch weiß Dr. Faraday nicht, wie eng und unauslöschlich ihre Geschichte mit der seinen verknüpft ist.

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