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Act of Grace
Anna Krien
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Beschreibung
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020
'A novelist for our times' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland
In this brilliant novel of fear and sacrifice, trauma and survival, four characters' lives intertwine across time and place. Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD. A decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Melbourne as the millennium turns, Robbie, faced with her father's dementia and family silences that may never be addressed, begins to test boundaries. And in the present day, Gerry seeks to escape his father Toohey's tyranny and heal the wounds inflicted by it.
Act of Grace is a meditation on inheritance: the damage that one generation bestows upon the next, and the potential for transformation. It is a searing, powerful and utterly original work by an exceptional Australian writer.
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Krien resists easy conclusions, following her flawed characters with sharp, sympathetic eyes, before leaving them without fanfare, still compromised and still uncertain, but with the chance to rework the angry echoes of the past into a song of their own.'
The wisdom and balance of Krien'
When it comes to the Australian writer Anna Krien's debut novel, <i>Act of Grace</i>, 'ambitious' feels like an understatement . . . In placing these complicated, vulnerable characters together, Krien crosses cultural and generational divides to dazzling effect.'
Krien's first novel is a high-wire performance. <b>With its vast historical rigging, epic scope, ethical complexity, and kaleidoscopic view, Act of Grace is enormously ambitious. </b>The reader watches, breath held, as the novel unspools, but Krien'
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