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Harry Selwyn’s Last Race
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Artikel-Nr:
9781910409695
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.02.2016
Seiten:
250
Autor:
Tony Bianchi
Gewicht:
476 g
Format:
201x127x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Tony Bianchi is from Tyneside and lives in Cardiff. Most of his fiction has been written in Welsh. Pryfeta won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize. His other novels are Esgyrn Bach, Chwilio am Sebastian Pierce, Ras Olaf Harri Selwyn and, in English, Bumping and Daniel's Beetles. He has also published a volume of short stories, Cyffesion Geordie Oddi Cartref.
At 79 years of age, Harry Selwyn still runs. He also brags about the time he ran with the Kalenjin: a remarkable tribe that has won more Olympic medals than any other nation. But Harry wants us to understand that, although he was certainly in Kenya during the last, bloody days of imperial rule, he had nothing to do with the dreadful events that took place there. "I was only guarding the compound," he says. Harry Selwyn is a master of detachment from the realities of the past, from his own ageing body, and from his conscience. Even the sudden death of his wife is not allowed to interfere with the daily routine. He must prepare for tomorrows race. He must return his ill-fitting trousers to the shop. He must cook a fish meal for his brother. And death will have to wait.