Time of the Old God
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Time of the Old God
14.99 €
11.99 €
The author’s new novel, whose books have twice been finalists for the Booker Prize, is a delicate lace canvas about love, memory, grief and long-buried secrets. Police officer Tom Kettle retired almost a year ago and settled in a rented apartment located in an extension of a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months, he didn’t talk to anyone, and barely saw anyone, except for a glimpse of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who had recently moved into a nearby apartment. Tom's life is left in the past, he lives without distinguishing between reality and memories - about his beloved wife June, daughter Winnie and son Joe.
They come to him in dreams and in reality. Tom doesn't expect anything, he just has to look out the window at the diving seagull, drink tea and remember... remember. But one day, a couple of former colleagues come to his doorstep, wanting to ask about the case of a decade ago, and left unsolved, which Tom could not accept. And Tom's present bursts into the dark swirls of his past, which he has tried to forget.
Brilliantly written, perfectly built, fascinating novel in which the mystery lies in every paragraph, where everything is not what it seems at first. “The Time of the Old God” is about what we have experienced, what we live in now and what will live after us, about the phenomenon of memory, which sometimes tries to replace reality.
In the title of his new book, Sebastian Barry put several meanings at once - here and the obvious appeal to the Old Testament, and a direct reference to Irish Catholicism, and religious allusions envelope the veil of a decaying memory, since the English expression "the time of the old god" means "that which is beyond memory." And it's the perfect title for a book about memory, interfering with the real and the imagined.
They come to him in dreams and in reality. Tom doesn't expect anything, he just has to look out the window at the diving seagull, drink tea and remember... remember. But one day, a couple of former colleagues come to his doorstep, wanting to ask about the case of a decade ago, and left unsolved, which Tom could not accept. And Tom's present bursts into the dark swirls of his past, which he has tried to forget.
Brilliantly written, perfectly built, fascinating novel in which the mystery lies in every paragraph, where everything is not what it seems at first. “The Time of the Old God” is about what we have experienced, what we live in now and what will live after us, about the phenomenon of memory, which sometimes tries to replace reality.
In the title of his new book, Sebastian Barry put several meanings at once - here and the obvious appeal to the Old Testament, and a direct reference to Irish Catholicism, and religious allusions envelope the veil of a decaying memory, since the English expression "the time of the old god" means "that which is beyond memory." And it's the perfect title for a book about memory, interfering with the real and the imagined.
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