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This Devastating Fever

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'This Devastating Fever is a very good novel.' - Howard Jacobson, New Statesman'I loved this book. I absolutely loved it.' - Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap and Barracuda'This is a great novel of enduring significance and enormous beauty.' - Sydney Morning HeraldSometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present. Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: is Y2K going to be a thing? Y2K was not a thing. But there were worse disasters to come. Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague. Uncertain of what to do she picks up an unfinished project and finds herself trapped with the ghosts of writers past. What began as a novel about a member of the Bloomsbury Set becomes something else altogether. Complex, heartfelt, darkly funny and deeply moving, this is a dazzlingly original novel about what it's like to live through a time that feels like the end of days, and how we can find comfort and answers in the past.

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  • Sprog:
  • Ukendt
  • ISBN:
  • 9781761151576
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 320
  • Udgivet:
  • 2. marts 2023
  • Størrelse:
  • 156x33x238 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 544 g.
  • Nyt oplag forberedes af forlaget.

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'This Devastating Fever is a very good novel.' - Howard Jacobson, New Statesman'I loved this book. I absolutely loved it.' - Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap and Barracuda'This is a great novel of enduring significance and enormous beauty.' - Sydney Morning HeraldSometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present. Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: is Y2K going to be a thing? Y2K was not a thing. But there were worse disasters to come. Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague. Uncertain of what to do she picks up an unfinished project and finds herself trapped with the ghosts of writers past. What began as a novel about a member of the Bloomsbury Set becomes something else altogether. Complex, heartfelt, darkly funny and deeply moving, this is a dazzlingly original novel about what it's like to live through a time that feels like the end of days, and how we can find comfort and answers in the past.

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