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The Gun Room
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Description
Bloomsbury presents The Gun Room by Georgina Harding, read by Antonia Beamish.
A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding
'Georgina Harding's novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose' Guardian
The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else.
Dawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young photographer takes the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear...
He flees to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom – and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. Yet even here his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried deep in his past.
The first in Harding's cycle of acclaimed novels on themes of witness, memory and silence, The Gun Room is beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating.
Product details
| Published | Apr 15 2021 |
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| Format | Audiobook |
| Duration | 4 hours and 57 minutes |
| ISBN | 9781526629609 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury USA |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Told in a gracefully quiet tone reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence--simple, descriptive, cool on the surface, churning with emotion below . . . with astute Susan Sontag-like ruminations on photography, viewer and subject, memory and responsibility . . . With a self-effacing tenderness, Harding brings her understated story to a powerful, emotional end. A haunting, subtle inquiry into complex and difficult matters.
Kirkus Reviews
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Harding's novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose . . . The Gun Room focuses minutely on one man and in doing so it tells a deep history of the many men who, having seen war, struggle to be anything but soldiers.
Guardian
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A powerful exposition about the struggle to bear witness to a spectrum of experiences, especially the experience of war.
Library Journal
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Poignant . . . Notable historical fiction containing intense beauty, surrealistic pain, and revealing perception!
Historical Novel Society
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Frankly glorious . . . a nearly stream-of-consciousness prose-poem immersion that is engaging and chilling, overwhelming the reader with the rush and confusion of Jonathan's experience.
The Brooklyn Rail
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In delicate, hypnotic prose, Harding describes the devastating effects of war and the trauma of bearing witness.
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