17%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
They are Trying to Break Your Heart
David Savill
€ 11.99
€ 9.95
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for They are Trying to Break Your Heart
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 'Moving, tender, thrilling, important. It will stay with me for a very long time' Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching DISASTER WILL BRING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER In 1994, Marko Novak's world is torn apart by the death of his best friend, a young soldier in the Bosnian war. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous lead in the hunt for a man with blood on his hands. When Anya invites her first love Will to join her on holiday in a Thai beach resort, she hopes they might unpick the mistakes of their past. She also knows that Kao Lak may be home to the man she is looking for. But a disaster as destructive as a war is approaching. In its wake, everything they knew will be overturned.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408865781
SKU
V9781408865781
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About David Savill
In the last year of the Bosnian war, David lived as a teacher and a student among the refugees of Srebrenica, helping to organise a summer university for students in the safe-haven of Tuzla. Over the past fifteen years he has returned to Bosnia several times. Tuzla, and the real story of its `Youth Day' massacre, became the inspiration for the fictional town of Stovnik. In an eight-year career as a BBC Current Affairs journalist, David worked on Panorama, This World, Real Story, World at One and PM. In 2004, he arrived on the beaches of Phuket two days after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. He spent the next six months in Thailand and Sri Lanka, where he made two documentaries about the aftermath of the disaster. David now has two children and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Salford in Manchester. davidsavill.com / @SavillDavid
Reviews for They are Trying to Break Your Heart
Tense and powerful ... Faultless ... Savill sidesteps the easy answers or received wisdoms about the labyrinthine, internecine war ... They are Trying to Break Your Heart triumphs
Times Literary Supplement
A pageturner of some considerable force. David Savill writes with a profound intelligence and compassion about subjects that really matter
Nathan Filer
Moving, tender, thrilling, important. It will stay with me for a very long time
Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching
Searing debut novel ... Family, love, responsibility, desire, memory, lust, death and the unspeakable - all these and more are stitched through a plot that ranges across 10 years of time, half a world, and a couple dozen characters ... Savill's is a mash-up of the international thriller and novel of ideas and it succeeds measurably in both
LA Times
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart is a beautifully balanced and nuanced novel. Savill threads together the various strands of his story superbly to produce a novel full of the mystery and wonder of the world
Richard Skinner
A remarkable book. They Are Trying To Break Your Heart moves with the force of a thriller, spanning decades and conjuring different continents, and their people, with ease. David Savill will break your heart, then put it back together again, page by page, in prose of aching emotional truth
Anna Hope, author of Wake
This is the first book I've read that truly represents the political climate of the twenty-first century's first decade. Moving between Sarajevo and Thailand, this multi-layered, global novel tackles what happens in the face of unbearable trauma ... The story evokes a pointed and contemporary question: how can we dare to love, when everything around us is broken?
Julia Bell
Whisks the reader off to the gripping heart of foreign wars and shores ... A breathtaking debut that doesn't pull its punches
Tim Samuels
The Bosnian war and Thailand's '04 tsunami come chillingly to life in this novel ... In lean, piercing prose, Savill brings the narrative to a surprising climax and paints a moving portrait of grief
People Magazine
Times Literary Supplement
A pageturner of some considerable force. David Savill writes with a profound intelligence and compassion about subjects that really matter
Nathan Filer
Moving, tender, thrilling, important. It will stay with me for a very long time
Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching
Searing debut novel ... Family, love, responsibility, desire, memory, lust, death and the unspeakable - all these and more are stitched through a plot that ranges across 10 years of time, half a world, and a couple dozen characters ... Savill's is a mash-up of the international thriller and novel of ideas and it succeeds measurably in both
LA Times
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart is a beautifully balanced and nuanced novel. Savill threads together the various strands of his story superbly to produce a novel full of the mystery and wonder of the world
Richard Skinner
A remarkable book. They Are Trying To Break Your Heart moves with the force of a thriller, spanning decades and conjuring different continents, and their people, with ease. David Savill will break your heart, then put it back together again, page by page, in prose of aching emotional truth
Anna Hope, author of Wake
This is the first book I've read that truly represents the political climate of the twenty-first century's first decade. Moving between Sarajevo and Thailand, this multi-layered, global novel tackles what happens in the face of unbearable trauma ... The story evokes a pointed and contemporary question: how can we dare to love, when everything around us is broken?
Julia Bell
Whisks the reader off to the gripping heart of foreign wars and shores ... A breathtaking debut that doesn't pull its punches
Tim Samuels
The Bosnian war and Thailand's '04 tsunami come chillingly to life in this novel ... In lean, piercing prose, Savill brings the narrative to a surprising climax and paints a moving portrait of grief
People Magazine