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  • Engels
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  • 9781471161933
  • 22 februari 2018
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Graham Swift

Graham Swift (1949) is de auteur van negen romans, twee bundels korte verhalen, waaronder het hooggewaardeerde Engeland en andere verhalen en van Een olifant maken, een verzameling essays, portretten, gedichten en bespiegelingen over zijn eigen schrijversleven. Met Waterland won hij de Guardian Fiction Prize en met Last Orders (Laatste ronde) de Booker Prize. Beide romans werden verfilmd. Zijn werk is vertaald in meer dan veertig talen.

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MOTHERING SUNDAY AND LAST ORDERS, and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, this is an intensely moving novel about a night that will change one family beyond recognition.

On a June night Paula, a successful art dealer, lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her. In nearby rooms their twin teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleep too. The next day, Paula knows, will define all their lives.

As dawn approaches, Paula recalls the years before and after her children were born. Her story is both a celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, of the fragilities on which even our most inward sense of who we are can rest.

Graham Swift’s apparently most domestic book is that rare thing in fiction, a novel about happiness, though a happiness that is not all that it seems. An intimate and tender tale of a marriage, a family and a home, it begins to embrace big themes: nature and nurture, the illusory and the real.

Praise for Mothering Sunday:

‘Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’Guardian
'Alive with sensuousness and sensuality … wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement’ Sunday Times
‘From start to finish Swift’s is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game’ Evening Standard
‘Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know … It may just be Swift’s best novel yet’Observer

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  • Why tell?

    Internationally rather poorly reviewed novel, which is basically a monologue lasting 5-6 hours full of flashbacks and -forewards of a wife's nightly fears for the morning to come, while her husband snores quietly beside her and her children, twins aged 16 do the same in their rooms. After making love with Mike, her partner of 30 years, Paula tells it all: they are a blissfully happy pair, 50 and 49 years old. But tomorrow, Kate and Nick will be told the truth. They passed their final exams and should be able to cope with bad news. Mike will tell everything.

    With Mike and the twins asleep, Paula in her mind tells her twins the whole story, her own and their family history, knowing Mike does not know all the details and therefore cannot possibly tell the whole story. What he tells them tomorrow will have an impact, and soon after on Mike's mother too, the only functional grandparent. And Mike himself may become a casualty of his disclosure.

    The main weakness of this slow-moving novel is Swift's burying the key question underlying Paula's long drawn-out history. From her account readers will surmise Mike is not going to announce a divorce, a crime, a deadly disease or a new faith. It is simply that he is not their biological father...

    The key question for this reader is, why? Why bother, upset your 16-year old children with such news unnecessarily? I may have missed a justification somewhere (but doubt it because the true nature of the confession came, of course, late in the book), so I must conclude that this is a smug (on the part of Paula), but well-written book around a contrived, foolish theme.

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