Testament of Mary
«The miracles are real, but unsettling and sinister; Toibin's writing can be stunning beautiful; another should-have from this year's Booker shortlist»
Kate Saunders, The Times 'Books of the Year'
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family.From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 112
- ISBN
- 9780241962978
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013.
Anmeldelser
«The miracles are real, but unsettling and sinister; Toibin's writing can be stunning beautiful; another should-have from this year's Booker shortlist»
Kate Saunders, The Times 'Books of the Year'
«This novel is the Virgin's version of the life of Christ. After a lifetime listening to everyone else's versions of that life, she is angry and frustrated because they are all questionable.»
Irish Independent
«Toibin has created an impressive work of religious imagination...haunting, highly original.»
TLS
«Tóibín's weary Mary, sceptical and grudging, reads as far more true and real than the saintly perpetual virgin of legend. And Tóibín is a wonderful writer: as ever, his lyrical and moving prose is the real miracle.»
Naomi Alderman, Observer
«This is a flawless work, touching, moving and terrifying.»
Linda Grant, New Statesman
«There is a profound ache throughout this little character study, a steely determination coupled with an unbearable loss. Although it has some insightful things to say about religion and the period - the descriptions of the Crucifixion are visceral - it has a universal message about the nature of loss.»
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
«Beautifully crafted»
The Times
«Fearsomely strange, deeply thoughtful»
Guardian
«Beguiling and deeply intelligent...In a single passage - and in a rendition, furthermore, of one of the most famous passages of western literature - Tóibín shows how the telling and the details are all-important.»
Robert Collins, Sunday Times
«With deceptively modest prose, Tóibín presents the Virgin Mary's story as one of human loss rather than salvation. By doing so he gives us a Mary to identify with rather than venerate.»
Metro
«Daring and very moving»
John Banville, "Books of the Year", Irish Times
«The Testament of Mary, a novella of absences and silences, achieves a shimmering power»
Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times, "Books of the Year"
«Tóibín's take on the most famous mother in history ... is all too believable»
Financial Times, "Books of the Year"
«Finely written»
Spectator 'Books of the Year'
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Channels the memories of the Virgin Mary into a subversive tour de force of economy and
» Roy Foster, TLS 'Books of the Year'
lacerating style
«Toibin's short, powerful book offers itself up as an additional gospel»
Gaby Wood, Telegraph 'Books of the Year'