James Whyle

We Two From Heaven (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A boldly imagined and beautifully written memoir. Whyle's prose is finely tuned, unflinching in its approach to painful subjects, but also laced with wry humour and the sheer delight of being alive.' - Ivan Vladislavic We Two from Heaven is a singular memoir, a four-part fugue on the tricks and traps of memory, a shuffling of the cards of time. Episodes from the early life of writer James Whyle are interwoven with the letters of his father from the Western Front during the First World War. Their formative experiences - war, conscription, injury, desertion - flash by, juxtaposed, as if in counterpoint. Upending the reader's expectations of a memoir, Whyle then explores the violence and madness of apartheid society as the narrator passes through boarding school and university and takes his first steps to become a writer. Raw and rhythmic, lyrical and caustic, this is an unsparing, formally inventive dissection of human vanities and illusions. At the end of history, on the shores of a blue bay, the voices of the past can be heard as we await the arrival of the barbarians - or the baboons, whoever comes first.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jonathan Ball
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776193851
• Artikelnr.: 73852628

Autorenporträt

JAMES WHYLE grew up in the Amatole Mountains in South Africa. Conscripted into the apartheid army, he was discharged on the grounds of insanity. The resulting play, National Madness, won an Amstel Playwright of the Year merit award in 1982. His short story, The Story, was chosen by JM Coetzee as winner of the 2011 Pen/Studzinski competition. The Book of War, a novel, won the M-Net Lit Prize for best debut in 2012.