John Boyne: The Weight of Angels, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Weight of Angels
- Publisher:
- Transworld Publ. Ltd UK, 09/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529943856
- Item number:
- 12640804
- Volume:
- 624 Pages
- Weight:
- 700 g
- Format:
- 234 x 153 mm
- Thickness:
- 40 mm
- Release date:
- 24.9.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 28.91* |
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Blurb
'John Boyne is one of our best authors writing today. The Weight of Angels is wise, imaginative, funny, and extremely moving. Art and Life, Tragedy and Love, you'll find them all here in this rich and magnificent novel' Tan Twan Eng, Booker longlisted author of The House of Doors Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed?
When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: 'For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite'. The most feted playwright of his day famously sued for libel, which led to his arrest, criminal prosecution and ultimately prison. From then on, his gilded existence spiralled into public disgrace, humiliation and an early death.
But what if he had simply ignored the insult? What direction might his life have taken? This is the premise of John Boyne's extraordinary new novel, The Weight of Angels .
Rather than dying in penury in Paris at the age of forty-six, what if he had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes of the first part of the twentieth century, and even influence some of them? What if the second half of his life were as celebrated, dramatic, tumultuous and exhilarating as the first?
In imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path.
Biography
John Boyne wurde 1971 in Dublin, Irland, geboren, wo er auch heute lebt. Er studierte "Englische Literatur' und 'Kreatives Schreiben' in Dublin und Norwich. Er ist der Autor von sechs Romanen, darunter "Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama", der zwei Irische Buchpreise gewann, für den "British Book Award" nominiert war und vor kurzem verfilmt wurde. John Boynes Romane wurden in über vierzig Sprachen übersetzt.