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An intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

A new work of fiction by Booker Prize-winning author Graham Swift

En hyllest til magiens forføreriske evne fra en av Englands aller fremste stilister. Vi befinner oss i Brighton sommeren 1959, og teateret på piren har sin beste sesong på årevis. Magikeren Ronnie og hans trollbindende assistent Evie framfører kveld etter kveld de mest halsbrekkende kunster, mens Jack - den perfekte entertainer - binder sammen forestillingen på spektakulært vis. På scenen er de den perfekte trio, men når scenelyset slås av, utspiller det seg et trekantdrama som overgår enhver forestilling. Da teppet faller for siste gang den sommeren, framfører Ronnie sitt fremste triks til da og forsvinner sporløst. 50 år senere stiller Evie seg de samme spørsmålene som da: Lever Ronnie, og kunne livet hennes blitt et annet? Bookerpris-vinneren Graham Swift mottok strålende kritikker for sin forrige roman Morsdag (2017), og også denne gangen beskriver han historiens og minnenes forgjengelighet. Med Her er vi åpner han dørene til en svunnen æra av magi, til et England som i etterspillet av andre verdenskrig lengter etter å bli forført, om enn for en skakket stund.

Fire menn som alle sto ham nær, møtes for å kaste den døde Jack Dodds aske på havet. Enken blir ikke med, av grunner bare hun vet om. Om en stadig mer bisarr dagstur, en reise på flere plan, og en roman om det mot og den sammensatthet en kan finne i vanlige menneskers liv.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise familiar, safe, even comforting settings. On a holiday beach, a mismatched couple wage a sexually charged war for the devotion of their literally floundering son. A family doctor, oppressed by his own domestic insecurities, intimidates an apparent time-wasting patient. A zookeeper becomes the keeper of a bizarre fixation . . . While vividly evoking a recognisable English geography, these startling stories have an eye for the foreign, for the experience of refugees or for less definable zones of bewilderment and strangeness. More than one has a touch of the ghostly. Highly located yet haunted and haunting, they penetrate a hidden world of human dislocation. 'Graham Swift should be read by everyone with an interest in the art of the short story' Paul Bailey, Evening Standard'A masterful collection of stories' USA Today

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Ordersand Waterland

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.