The People's Act Of Love

The People's Act Of Love

James Meek
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In a freezing, isolated Siberia of 1919, James Meek poses a crucial question: under what circumstances is it justifiable to eat another human being?

Welcome to Siberia in 1919. Deep in the unforgiving landscape, a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own…

"Religious fanaticism and impassioned political radicalism are the combustible conjoined themes of the globetrotting British journalist’s third novel... Meek throws them all together in impressively dramatic “big” scenes whose power is ever-so-slightly vitiated by contrived explications of the paradox indicated by his superb title: the destructiveness latent in visionary all-or-nothing reversals of social order and “normal” human impulses... A provocative, skillfully plotted, emotionally engaging fiction—and a giant step forward for the gifted Meek."  -  Kirkus Reviews

James Meek's novel The People’s Act of Love (2005) won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the SAC Book of the Year Award. The widely acclaimed We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is his fourth novel. He has published two collections of short stories, Last Orders and The Museum of Doubt, and contributed to the acclaimed Rebel Inc anthologies The Children of Albion Rovers and The Rovers Return.

Anno:
2013
Casa editrice:
Canongate Books
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
416
ISBN 10:
1847673759
ISBN 13:
9781847673756
Collana:
Man Booker Prize Longlist
File:
EPUB, 1.01 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2013
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