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The Antidote

Karen Russell
'Karen Russell is one in a million' New York TimesFrom the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America's Dust Bowl.Visit The Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers.But after the great dust storm that flattens wheatfields, buries houses and kills a newlywed couple just a few feet from their car, the Antidote wakes up empty - as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever find out, her life will be in danger.To the Antidote's surprising defence come a farmer, his basketball-playing niece and a Black photographer with her time-travelling camera. Apart, they run from the memories that have brought them to this lonely brink. Together, they face down the tornado coming their way.The Antidote is above all a reckoning with a nation's forgetting - theft, dispossession, wilful blindness, passed on generation to generation. The Dust Bowl echo with warnings of our own time, daring to challenge us with what might have been - and what still could be.'A brilliant writer with an amazing imagination' The Times
Autor: Russell, Karen
EAN: 9781784745646
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 420
Produktart: kartoniert, broschiert
Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 13.03.2025
Schlagworte: Amerikanische Belletristik / Historischer Roman, Erzählung Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Historischer Roman, Erzählung Nebraska Dreißiger Jahre / Roman, Erzählung
Größe: 40 × 153 × 231
Gewicht: 524 g