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A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .
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A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr
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- Rok vydání
- 2014
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- J. L. Carr
- Vydavatel
- Penguin UK
- Rok vydání
- 2014
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 112
- ISBN10
- 0241972035
- ISBN13
- 9780241972038
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Historické téma, Láska, Klasika, Britská literatura, Anglie, Novely, Minulost, Štěstí, První světová válka (1914–1918), Církev, Léto, Vesnice, Venkov, Yorkshire
- První vydání
- 1980
- Původní název
- A Month in the Country
- Hodnocení
- 4,1 z 5
- Anotace
- A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .







