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A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not aloneThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that.He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.Got your special meds, n...

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not aloneThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that.He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.Got your special meds, n...

Ein bravouröser und von Musik geradezu besessener Roman, in dem der Erfolgsautor Max Porter die Erkundung der Jugend aus Lanny fortsetzt.

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A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter inhabits Francis Bacon in his final moments, translating into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the...

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny. 'A little masterpiece.' Irish Times'Luminous.' Observer'One of our most exciting writers.' The SpectatorMadrid.

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In April 1992, Francis Bacon travels to Madrid against the advice of his physician. Shortly after his arrival, the painter is taken to a monastery hospital, where he dies six days later. This is the starting point of Max Porter's book, in which he attempts to put himself in the dying artist's place and give words to his final thoughts. In seven chapters, the author allows us to participate in Bacon's deathbed confrontation with his own extraor...

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Ein kleines abgelegenes Dorf. Es gehört den Menschen, die dort leben, ihren Freuden und Sorgen, ihrem Alltag und ihren Legenden. Doch es gehört auch einem mythischen Wesen, das aus seinem Schlaf erwacht ist, dem dörflichen Treiben zusieht und lauscht, immer auf der Suche nach seiner Lieblingsstimme: der Stimme von Lanny.

The author of "Grief Is The Thing With Feathers" presents in this new novel a village outside London where lives of the present and lives that played out there hundreds of years ago interweave. Dead Papa Toothwort awakes from his slumber and is vigilant of these characters - searching intently for his favourite, a boy called Lanny.

Longlisted for the 2019 Booker PrizeAn entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with FeathersThere's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to th...