Pine Islands (eBook)

Marion Poschmann (Autor)

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2019
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-465-6 (ISBN)

Infos

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhen Gilbert wakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately and inexplicably - for Tokyo, where he meets a fellow lost soul: Yosa, a young Japanese student clutching a copy of The Complete Manual of Suicide. Together, Gilbert and Yosa set off on a pilgrimage to see the pine islands of Matsushima, one looking for the perfect end to his life, the other for a fresh start. Playful and profound, The Pine Islands is a beautiful tale of friendship, transformation and acceptance in modern Japan.Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

Autor

Marion Poschmann was born in Essen in 1969. A prize-winning poet and novelist, she has won both of Germany's premier poetry prizes and the Berlin Prize for Literature. Poschmann has been shortlisted for the German Book Prize on three occasions and won the 2013 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize.

Rezensionen

Ravishingly funny

Simply wonderful

Miraculous ... Poschmann has all the air of uncovered greatness

Clever, poetic, funny

Absurdly delightful

Really fascinating ... on the face of it a simple story with a sort of surreality to it, a playfulness as well ... interesting, left-field ... we absolutely loved it ... a comic confrontation with mortality

A masterpiece

A blackly funny novel, in which the rhythms of modern life slowly give way to the restorative poetry of the natural world.

Funny, strange and sad ... a refreshing book for the curious reader

A dazzling little novel

Profoundly serene, flawlessly beautiful

If you've ever wondered how a writer of imagination and wit might blend Murakami-style mysticism with black-humoured realism, this diverting novel will tell you everything you need to know.

A remarkably tender exploration of modern life ... Poschmann reveals the still beauty to be found in life beneath a mask of black humour.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2019
• Übersetzer: Jen Calleja
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: absorbing novel • Buddhist philosophy • Denis Thériault The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman • escapist reads • Fiction set in Japan • International Booker Prize • Issa • Japanese haiku translation • Japanese road trip • Japan suicide forest • less andrew sean greer • Lost in Translation • Matsuo Basho • Matsushima • other writers like Murakami • Prizewinning translated fiction • quirky friendship novel • Robert Seethaler A Whole Life • Sun-mi Hwang The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly • Takashi Hiraide The Guest Cat
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-465-6 / 1782834656
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-465-6 / 9781782834656