Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of the last war, In the Wolf's Mouth follows the Allies' botched 'liberation' attempts as they chase the Germans north towards the Italian mainland. Focussing on the campaigns of two young soldiers - Will Walker, an English Field Security Officer, ambitious to master and shape events, and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman - the new novel from Adam Foulds contains some of the best battle writing of the past fifty years. Particularly eloquent on the brutish, blundering inaccuracy of war, this is a sensual, intimate experience: the immediacy of the prose uncanny and unforgettable. The book opens with the stories of two Sicilians - Angil a young shepherd, caught up in corruption, and Cir Albanese, a local Mafioso - and we meet the same two men in the terrifying final chapters, making it clear that the Mafia were there before and are there still, the slaughter of war only a temporary distraction.A novel about many things, including the impossibility of good and evil, In the Wolf's Mouth shows how individual fates and truths are lost in the writing of history - lost, along with all tenderness and humanity. At the same time, Adam Foulds has remade a history: lifting it out of newsreel and back into its raw and helpless flesh and blood.

From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze

In the Wolf's Mouth follows the lives of four very different men, all of them navigating the chaos and horror brought about by the Second World War. Fighting for the Allies are Will Walker, an ambitious English Field Security Officer and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman who dreams of home and the movies. Meanwhile in Sicily, Angilù, a young shepherd caught up in corruption and Cirò Albanese, a sinister Mafioso, are fighting their own battles with devastating consequences.



Vorwort
The eagerly awaited follow-up to The Quickening Maze by the brilliant young prize-winner.

Autorentext

Adam Foulds is a novelist and poet. The Broken Word won the 2008 Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include In the Wolf's Mouth and The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature. He has recently been awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named as one of Granta's 'Best of Young British Novelists'. In 2014 he was named as a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet.



Zusammenfassung
From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening MazeIn the Wolf s Mouth follows the lives of four very different men, all of them navigating the chaos and horror brought about by the Second World War. Fighting for the Allies are Will Walker, an ambitious English Field Security Officer and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman who dreams of home and the movies. Meanwhile in Sicily, Angil , a young shepherd caught up in corruption and Cir Albanese, a sinister Mafioso, are fighting their own battles with devastating consequences.
Titel
In the Wolf's Mouth
EAN
9781448181612
ISBN
978-1-4481-8161-2
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
06.02.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.69 MB
Anzahl Seiten
336
Jahr
2014
Untertitel
Englisch
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