Haven

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of HamnetIn seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him, he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship.Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean?'Haven is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Sinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully written' The Times'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect' Margaret Atwood via Twitter'Book of the Year' pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTE and The Times. Pre-order Learned by Heart, the dazzling new love story from Emma Donoghue.

Participantes

Autor: Emma Donoghue

Autor

EMMA DONOGHUE

Nascida em Dublin em 1969, Emma Donoghue é escritora de ficção contemporânea e histórica. Seus romances incluem Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask, Hood e Stir-fry. Suas coletâneas de contos são The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Kissing the Witch e Touchy Subjects. Ela também escreve história literária e peças para teatro e rádio. Sucesso de público e crítica, seu livro Quarto foi publicado em mais de trinta países e eleito melhor livro do ano por diversos meios de comunicação. Emma mora na cidade de London, na província de Ontário, Canadá, com sua parceira e dois filhos pequenos.