ISBN 9788119300112|Paperback|222 pages|2023|Picador
Pearl, by Siân Hughes, is a novel that explores the themes of love, grief, and faith.
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ISBN 9788119300112|Paperback|222 pages|2023|Picador
Pearl, by Siân Hughes, is a novel that explores the themes of love, grief, and faith.
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Pearl, by Siân Hughes, is a novel that explores the themes of love, grief, and faith. The book is a retelling of the medieval poem Pearl, which tells the story of a father’s grief for a lost daughter. In Hughes’s Pearl, the story focuses on a bereaved child, Marianne, who recounts the death of her own mother and the years of grief that followed. The novel is a slow-burning meditation on grief and memory, determinedly low-key, fuller of reflection than incident, and using its language with precision rather than floweriness. The book is radical in largely dispensing with dramatic tension in order to create a circling story that maps the lasting impact of a loss. Pearl is a novel that has wisdom and experience distilled into it, that defies its downbeat subject matter with the joy of its telling. The book is a beautiful, searching novel from start to finish – vividly told and movingly elegiac in its unfolding understanding of the psychology of loss.
Author:
Siân Hughes
ISBN:
9788119300112
Publisher:
Picador
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
222
Year of Publication:
2023
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Contributors
Siân Hughes is an award-winning poet. Her first collection of poetry, The Missing, contained the elegy The Send Off that won The Arvon International poetry prize in 2006 and the Seamus Heaney award for a first collection. At the moment Siân is working on translating two more poems from the Pearl manuscript and writing stories inspired by them. She also runs a small community bookshop.
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