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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain 'Expansive and arresting' Financial Times 'S harp, subtle and very moving' Robert Macfarlane Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world: the 'flat place' she carries inside herself, emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma. But as much as Britain's landscapes provide solace for suffering, they are also uneasy places for a Scottish-Pakistani woman, representing both an inheritance and a dispossession. Pursuing this paradox across the wide open plains that she loves, Noreen weaves her impressions of the natural world with the poetry, folklore and history of the land, and with recollections of her own early life, rendering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of a post-traumatic, post-colonial landscape - a seemingly flat and motionless place which is nevertheless defiantly alive. 'Beautifully written and elegantly constructed' Kamila Shamsie ' A Flat Place reminds us that there is hope in the smallest of gestures' Sara Ahmed SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORKER
| EAN: | 9780241994337 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 04.04.2024 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Autoren: | Masud, Noreen |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 240 |
| Themenüberschrift: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs |
| Keyword: | non fiction; cptsd; nature; memoir; british; travel; robert macfarlane; underland; britain; ptsd; the salt path; anxiety; poetry; the lost words; scotland; journey; h is for hawk; folklore; pakistan; olivia laing; wintering; the lonely city; the outrun; jackie morris; vesper flights; katherine may; helen macdonald; the old ways; earthed; i belong here; richard mabey; natural world; rebecca schiller; orkney; the instant; nature cure; rootbound; anita sethi; funny weather; natural history; lahore; countryside; landmarks; the wild places; childhood trauma; pastoral; history folklore; essays |
| Fachschema: | England / Reiseführer, Reisebeschreibung~Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung~Erinnerung~Lebenserinnerung~Memoiren~Erdkunde~Geografie - Geograf |
| Fachkategorie: | Biografien: allgemein~Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen~Folklore, Mythen und Legenden~Historische Geographie~Umgang mit PTSD und anderen psychologischen Traumata~Die Natur: Sachbuch, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies |
| Region: | Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin |
| Verlag: | Penguin Books Ltd (UK) |
| Länge: | 196 mm |
| Breite: | 131 mm |
| Höhe: | 30 mm |
| Gewicht: | 186 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |