Oscar Hijuelos: Mr. Ives' Christmas
Mr. Ives' Christmas
Buch
- Grand Central Publishing, 10/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781538722275
- Bestellnummer: 11761910
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Gewicht: 227 g
- Maße: 203 x 133 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 8.10.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Hailed “the deepest and the best” of a Pulitzer-Prize winning author's novels, a business man struggles to restore his faith after his son is killed (New York Times Book Review).In 1960s New York, Edward Ives is a picture of the American dream. Adopted as a child by a widowed print shop manager who helped him cultivate a love of drawing, he now has a successful career as an illustrator in advertising, a beautiful home with his wife and muse, Annie, and two loving children. But this idyllic life is brutally wrenched away when Ives’s 17-year-old son, Robert is murdered in a crime of opportunity that proves to be as random as it is senseless.
Consumed by grief, Ives withdraws from the world. Grappling with a loss of faith—a force that has guided him steadfastly since childhood—he starts to question every aspect of human existence, contemplating what it really means to live an emotionally and spiritually fulfilling life. This mourning consumes him—until faces his son's killer.
Mr. Ives' Christmas is a tender, passionate story of a man working to rediscover what it means to love and forgive after unspeakable tragedy. It is another tremendous achievement from one of America’s most talented writers.
Includes a Reading Group Guide.
Biografie
Oscar Hijuelos wurde am 1951 als Sohn kubanischer Einwanderer in New York geboren. Er spielte bereits früh Gitarre in puerto-ricanischen Bands und studierte Literatur am New Yorker City College. Seine sechs Romane für Erwachsene wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet und zum Teil verfilmt. Für 'Die Mambo Kings spielen Songs der Liebe' erhielt Oscar Hijuelos 1990 als erster Latino-Schriftsteller den Pulitzer-Preis. Oscar Hijuelos
Mr. Ives' Christmas
EUR 19,43*