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A Shout in the Ruins (Hardcover)
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A Shout in the Ruins (Hardcover)
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List price R520
Loot Price R429
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You Save R91 (18%)
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* One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018 * 'Achingly
relevant' - Grazia 'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times 'An
American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant
talent' - Andrew Motion, Observer 'Contains moments that burn'
Daily Mail A stunning novel about violence, power and love by Kevin
Powers, the acclaimed author of The Yellow Birds and winner of both
the 2012 Guardian First Book Award and the Hemingway/PEN Award. A
nighttime whipping in a lamplit barn. A ruined leg tossed onto a
pile of discarded limbs. A hand snuffing out a desperate cry behind
a bedroom's locked door. In A Shout in the Ruins, Kevin Powers
returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his
native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety
years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the
nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion,
and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a
stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth,
what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will
survive of us is love. Written with the same emotional intensity,
harrowing realism, and poetic precision that made The Yellow Birds
one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in
the Ruins cements Powers' place as one of the most important
novelists of our time. 'Beautifully formed sentences express
unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge,
showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren
earth.' - Sarah Johnson, Booklist
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