Ben Shattuck


The History of Sound

Shattuck, Ben | THE HISTORY OF SOUND


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781800754829

En samling av tolv berättelser som utforskar hur kärlek och förlust återkommer genom generationerna, med kopplingar mellan det förflutna och nuet.

  • En fängslande roman av Ben Shattuck.

  • Utforskar ljudets historia i skönlitterär form.

  • Utgiven som pocket.

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Ny
Pris:
REA-pris161 kr

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9781800754829

Omfång: 320
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-11

Förlagets information

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'Exquisitely crafted, deeply imagined, exhilaratingly diverse, The History of Sound places Ben Shattuck firmly among the very finest of our storytellers' - Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of Horse

'Triumphant' The Times

'Stellar' Daily Mail

'Exceptionally accomplished' The Scotsman

'Exquisite' Sunday Post

In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck's ingenious collection, each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted, and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families.

The haunting title story recalls the journey of two men who meet around a piano in a smoky, dim bar, only to spend a summer walking the Maine woods collecting folk songs in the shadow of the First World War, forever marked by the odyssey. Decades later, in another story, a woman discovers the wax cylinders recorded that fateful summer while cleaning out her new house in Maine. Shattuck's inventive, exquisite stories transport readers from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyond-into landscapes both enduring and unmistakably modern. Memories, artefacts, paintings, and journals resurface in surprising and poignant ways among evocative beaches, forests, and orchards, revealing the secrets, misunderstandings, and love that linger across centuries.

Written with breathtaking humanity and humor, The History of Sound is a love letter to New England, a radiant conversation between past and present, and a moving meditation on the abiding search for home.

Vanliga frågor om The History of Sound av Ben Shattuck

Boken utforskar hur kärlek och förlust är sammanflätade genom historien och innehåller tolv noveller som kopplar samman olika tidsperioder och karaktärer.

Boken riktar sig till läsare som uppskattar litteratur med djupa känslomässiga teman och historiska perspektiv.

Boken är en ny pocketutgåva på 320 sidor, utgiven av Faber & Faber den 11 september 2025, och är skriven på engelska.

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