The Murderer (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241552728
- ISBN10 0241552729
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Sammlung GARDNERS
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2022
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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English LiteraturThe Murderer (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's daughter, appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection - maybe even happiness. But there is a darkness inside Galton, and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally, violently unravel.
With this haunting portrait of a mind undone, celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth: its rivers, townships and tenement yards, and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community.
'Enthralling ... a nuanced portrait of the disintegrating individual psyche' Fred D'Aguiar