Paul Murray

The Bee Sting

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story ofone family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .'A tragicomic triumph.You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian'The finest novel that Murray has yet written . . .will surely be one of the books of 2023' Sunday Independent'Murray is a natural storyteller . . .Ambitious, expansive, hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction' Irish TimesThe Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil?Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating .. . a triumph' Financial Times'It's been compared to Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; I'd argue it's better' Daily Mail

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story ofone family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .'A tragicomic triumph.You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian'The finest novel that Murray has yet written . . .will surely be one of the books of 2023' Sunday Independent'Murray is a natural storyteller . . .Ambitious, expansive, hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction' Irish TimesThe Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil?Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating .. . a triumph' Financial Times'It's been compared to Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; I'd argue it's better' Daily Mail

Nyelv angol
Kiadó Hamish Hamilton
Kötés típusa Paperback
Méretek (Sz-M-H) 153 x 233
EAN 9780241353967
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