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The Gun Room
Georgina Harding
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Description for The Gun Room
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young photographer takes the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear... He flees to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom - and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. Yet even here his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried deep in his past.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408869819
SKU
V9781408869819
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Georgina Harding
Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. She lives on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.
Reviews for The Gun Room
Georgina Harding's novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose
Sadie Jones
Guardian
Quietly and restrainedly, The Gun Room is a book that provokes searching questions
Daily Mail
Graceful and considered ... The dreamlike quality is heightened by Harding's sharply observed prose ... As befits a writer adept at carefully cropped scenes, Harding has the measure of photography. The novel plays with its ability to captivate, shock, inform and misdirect
Sunday Telegraph
In delicate, hypnotic prose, Harding describes the devastating effects of war and the trauma of bearing witness
Sunday Express
A moving story
Elle Summer Reading
Harding has the descriptive skills to do her subject justice ... Elegant
Mail on Sunday
Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away
Esther Freud
Sadie Jones
Guardian
Quietly and restrainedly, The Gun Room is a book that provokes searching questions
Daily Mail
Graceful and considered ... The dreamlike quality is heightened by Harding's sharply observed prose ... As befits a writer adept at carefully cropped scenes, Harding has the measure of photography. The novel plays with its ability to captivate, shock, inform and misdirect
Sunday Telegraph
In delicate, hypnotic prose, Harding describes the devastating effects of war and the trauma of bearing witness
Sunday Express
A moving story
Elle Summer Reading
Harding has the descriptive skills to do her subject justice ... Elegant
Mail on Sunday
Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away
Esther Freud