Bournville: A Novel in Seven Events
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Bournville: A Novel in Seven Events
14.99 €
Jonathan Coe's new book is a multi-part novel suite, where each part is an event in twentieth- and twenty-first-century British history, including the end of World War II, the 1966 World Cup final, the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana, the death of Princess Diana, and the pandemic....
This historical prism refracts the fates of Bournville, the chocolate capital of the United Kingdom, and the family who lived there at different times. From the events of inconspicuous private lives with their minutiae both fleeting and repetitive, from the situational decisions of ordinary Britons to nationwide upheaval and emotion, everything is there in this incredibly capacious novel. Following the characters from generation to generation, across seventy-five years, Coe traces the changes that both Britain as a whole and the private lives of Britons are undergoing. Coe leads his characters through wartime nostalgia, through a sense of English exceptionalism weakening with each decade, through personal secrets and national myths-his characters drift in the flow of history, the novel, confused, bewildered but also encouraged. Coe's novel is full of good-natured humor, sadness, hope, and certainly honest wisdom. It is an attempt to answer the question of where the British nation is heading and how exactly it chose that road.
This historical prism refracts the fates of Bournville, the chocolate capital of the United Kingdom, and the family who lived there at different times. From the events of inconspicuous private lives with their minutiae both fleeting and repetitive, from the situational decisions of ordinary Britons to nationwide upheaval and emotion, everything is there in this incredibly capacious novel. Following the characters from generation to generation, across seventy-five years, Coe traces the changes that both Britain as a whole and the private lives of Britons are undergoing. Coe leads his characters through wartime nostalgia, through a sense of English exceptionalism weakening with each decade, through personal secrets and national myths-his characters drift in the flow of history, the novel, confused, bewildered but also encouraged. Coe's novel is full of good-natured humor, sadness, hope, and certainly honest wisdom. It is an attempt to answer the question of where the British nation is heading and how exactly it chose that road.
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