Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, a woman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a kestrel hunting, helps a farmer with a renegade bull, and plays out with her best friend, Clare. Around her in the village her neighbours are arguing, keeping secrets, caring for one another, trying to hold down jobs. In the woods and quarry there are foxcubs fighting, plants competing for space, ageing machines, and a three-legged deer who likes cake. These local phenomena interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power. A story of remote violence and a work of praise for a persistently lively world, brilliantly written, surprising, evocative and unsettling, Daisy Hildyard's Emergency reinvents the pastoral novel for the climate change era.
Daisy Hildyard Knihy
Tato autorka zkoumá zlomové momenty v literatuře, s důrazem na historické texty a jejich vliv na moderní vyprávění. Její práce se noří do hlubin rané vědecké a literární historie a odhaluje skryté souvislosti mezi různými formami poznání. Prostřednictvím pečlivého studia minulosti přináší svěží pohled na to, jak se formovala naše chápání světa a jak se to odráží v umění. Její prvotina je výsledkem tohoto hlubokého badatelského zájmu a nabízí čtenářům poutavý vhled do doby, která formovala základy moderní vědy a literatury.



Hunters in the Snow
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. The history of great men loses its way in the stories of ordinary great-grandparents, grandparents and parents, including the historian's own.
The Second Body
- 119 stránek
- 5 hodin čtení
THE SECOND BODY is a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.