Carys Davies

La historia de dos desconocidos destinados a entenderse, una pequeña joya de la literatura británica. Ivar, el único habitante de una remota isla escocesa, vive desde hace décadas en pacífico aislami

La historia de dos desconocidos destinados a entenderse, una pequeña joya de la literatura británica.Ivar, el único habitante de una remota isla escocesa, vive desde hace décadas en pacífico aislamiento acompañado de unos pocos animales. Hasta que un dia de 1843 se encuentra a un hombre inconsciente en la playa. El recien llegado es John Ferguson, joven presbitero enviado por el dueño de la isla para desahuciar a Ivar y poder convertir la zona en terreno de pastoreo. Ajeno a las intenciones del desconocido, Ivar lo lleva a su casa y, pese a que no hablan el mismo idioma, un fragil vinculo empieza a nacer entre ellos. Entretanto, en tierra firme, Mary, la mujer de John, espera ansiosa noticias de su marido.Ambientada en el recondito territorio mas alla de las islas Shetland durante los implacables y dramaticos Desalojos de comunidades rurales escocesas del siglo XIX, Despejado es la conmovedora historia del encuentro entre diferentes, una novela intima y llena de ternura sobre dos personas a merced de los cambios sociales y economicos de su epoca.La belleza de esta novela, con sus frases perfectas, su ternura austera y su serena sensacion de desasosiego, es atemporal. Una obra magistral. Hernan DiazDavies es una escritora de inmenso talento. Colm ToibinDavies posee el excepcional don de la brevedad elocuente. Despejado es aguda, emotiva, inesperada. Penelope LivelyUna narracion tan intensa que empuja al lector a terminar el libro de una sentada. Bernard MacLavertyUna carta de amor al poder abrasador del lenguaje. En pocas palabras es capaz de evocar mundos enteros. Clare Clark (The Guardian)Una pequeña joya, bellamente esculpida, que no olvidaras facilmente. Fiona Roberts-Moore (Evening Standard)El exito arrollador de Davies se comprende enseguida: en cuanto el lector se adentra en una prosa que en realidad esconde pura poesia. Javier Menendez Llamazares (El Diario Montañes)Una buena novela breve en la que brillan las palabras. Luis M. Alonso (Abril / El Periodico de España)Despejado tiene la agradable cualidad de cambiar el rumbo a cada pagina. Es una historia unica, que escapa de los margenes habituales. (Ahora Que Leo / LaSexta.com)Carys Davies escribe una excelente novela sobre la posibilidad de lograr el equilibrio en medio de la galerna. Sobre la encarnacion del triangulo equilatero. Lo hace con la precision documental que exige la novela historica, detalle realista y una imaginacion poetica fuera de lo comun, que logra concederle al relato un toque alentador e imprevisible. Marta Sanz

Winner of the 2015 International Frank OConnor Short Story AwardWinner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: FictionShortlisted for the 2015 Edge Hill Short Story PrizeThe Globe 100: The Best International Fiction of 2017In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life. At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria. A teenage daughter leaves home in search of adventure. High in the Cumbrian fells a woman seeks help from her fathers enemy.Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit, the stories in Carys Daviess sparkling second collection remind us how little we know of the lives of others.

Fuyant ses démons intérieurs, un bibliothécaire quinquagénaire sujet à l’anxiété décide de troquer le Royaume-Uni pour une ancienne station britannique du sud de l’Inde. Hébergé par un pasteur et sa

" Sobre et magnifique, ce bref roman hantera longtemps votre imagination. " Claire Messud John Cyrus Bellman, jeune veuf inconsolé, vit avec sa petite fille de dix ans, Bess, dans leur ferme de Pennsylvanie. Un entrefilet dans la gazette locale, faisant etat dune decouverte stupefiante, va le sortir de sa melancolie et de son desuvrement : de mysterieux ossements gigantesques auraient ete deterres, quelque part dans le Kentucky. Nous sommes au dix-neuvieme siecle, et le continent americain demeure pour une large part inexplore. Quy a-t-il donc a louest ? Se pourrait-il que des creatures fantastiques rodent dans les terres inconnues qui setendent au-dela du fleuve Mississippi ? Bellman decide den avoir le cur net et, simprovisant aventurier, part a la recherche des betes sauvages, en compagnie dun jeune eclaireur indien repondant au nom de Vieille Femme de Loin. Bess, livree a elle-meme et aux bons soins dune tante reveche, passera de longs moments, penchee sur les atlas de la bibliotheque, a suivre en imagination le periple de son pere sans se douter que les monstres nexistent pas que dans les songes ou aux confins du monde, mais quils sont aussi la, bien reels, a notre porte. Fable poignante et ensorcelante, epopee miniature dune rare puissance devocation, West reprend a son compte le mythe de la frontiere pour louvrir aux infinis horizons de la reverie."West a la sombre puissance et limmediatete dun conte ou dune legende. " Colm ToibinRoman traduit de langlais (Grande-Bretagne) par David Fauquemberg

The Sunday Times (London) Novel of the YearLuminousa writer to watchand to savor. Oprah DailyFrom the award-winning author of West and The Redemption of Galen Pike, a sublime (The Toronto Star) and propulsive novel that follows an Englishman seeking refuge in a remote hill town in India who gets caught in the crossfire of local tensions.In this jewel of a novel (The Observer), Hilary Byrd flees his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in England for a former British hill station in south India. Charmed by the foreignness of his new surroundings and by the familiarity of everything the British have left behind, he finds solace in lifes simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where, after a chance meeting, the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla take Hilary under their wing. The Padre is concerned for Priscillas future, and as Hilarys friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. A skillful drama of well-meant misunderstandings and cultural divisions (TheWall Street Journal), The Mission House boldly and imaginatively explores postcolonial ideas in a world fractured between faith and nonbelief, young and old, imperial past and nationalistic present. Tenderly subversive and meticulously crafted, it is a deeply human story of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world.

From the award-winning author of West and The Mission HouseSome New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness they all lie in wait for Daviess characters in their startlingly different worlds: a dry cleaners shop in contemporary Chicago, a mining town in South Wales in the sixties, a lunatic asylum in nineteenth century northern England.Shot through with wit and aching emotional poignancy, these stories tell of how we attempt to confront the things life throws in our path often when we least expect them, and in places where we never thought to look. They tell of the mistakes we make along the way, and of how we try to deal with the whole difficult, unpredictable business.There is the boy who steps into his best friends clothes in a desperate bid to fulfil his dreams, the man who comes up with an amazing new invention to win the heart of the woman he loves, the bored young wife doomed to live on an island where everything is red, the middle-aged woman who finds a baby in the sand and passes it off as her own.

Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a south Indian mission house next door to the presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter, Priscilla, live. As Hilary's friendship with Priscilla grows, so too do the religious and nationalist tensions around them, and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. Meticulously crafted and tenderly subversive, The Mission House is a deeply human story of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world.

Veuf inconsolé, John Cyrus Bellman vit avec sa fille Bess dans leur ferme de Pennsylvanie. Un entrefilet dans la gazette locale le sort de sa mélancolie : des ossements gigantesques auraient été déterres quelque part dans le Kentucky. Se pourrait-il que des creatures fantastiques rodent dans les terres inconnues qui setendent au-dela du fleuve Mississippi ? Bellman, simprovisant aventurier, part a la recherche de ce qui se cache a louest

Fuyant ses démons intérieurs, un bibliothécaire quinquagénaire sujet à l’anxiété décide de troquer le Royaume-Uni pour une ancienne station britannique du sud de l’Inde. Hébergé par un pasteur et sa

" Sobre et magnifique, ce bref roman hantera longtemps votre imagination. " Claire Messud John Cyrus Bellman, jeune veuf inconsolé, vit avec sa petite fille de dix ans, Bess, dans leur ferme de Pennsylvanie. Un entrefilet dans la gazette locale, faisant etat dune decouverte stupefiante, va le sortir de sa melancolie et de son desuvrement : de mysterieux ossements gigantesques auraient ete deterres, quelque part dans le Kentucky. Nous sommes au dix-neuvieme siecle, et le continent americain demeure pour une large part inexplore. Quy a-t-il donc a louest ? Se pourrait-il que des creatures fantastiques rodent dans les terres inconnues qui setendent au-dela du fleuve Mississippi ? Bellman decide den avoir le cur net et, simprovisant aventurier, part a la recherche des betes sauvages, en compagnie dun jeune eclaireur indien repondant au nom de Vieille Femme de Loin. Bess, livree a elle-meme et aux bons soins dune tante reveche, passera de longs moments, penchee sur les atlas de la bibliotheque, a suivre en imagination le periple de son pere sans se douter que les monstres nexistent pas que dans les songes ou aux confins du monde, mais quils sont aussi la, bien reels, a notre porte. Fable poignante et ensorcelante, epopee miniature dune rare puissance devocation, West reprend a son compte le mythe de la frontiere pour louvrir aux infinis horizons de la reverie."West a la sombre puissance et limmediatete dun conte ou dune legende. " Colm ToibinRoman traduit de langlais (Grande-Bretagne) par David Fauquemberg

1843. Ivar, le dernier habitant d’une île perdue au large de l’Écosse, mène une vie solitaire et paisible, jusqu’au jour où il trouve sur la plage, au pied d’une falaise, un homme inconscient. Le nou

Une version enrichie des lettres de Rilke, avec une préface contemporaine et des notes explicatives pour les jeunes lecteurs.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Sunday Times (UK) * The Guardian (UK) * The Washington Independent Review of Books * Sydney Morning Herald * The Los Angeles Public Library * The Irish Independent * Real Simple *Finalist for the Rathbones Folio PrizeCarys Davies is a deft, audacious visionary. Tea ObrehtWhen widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west.With only a barnyard full of miserable animals and her dead mothers gold ring to call her own, Bess, unprotected and approaching womanhood, fills lonely days tracing her fathers route on maps at the subscription library and waiting for his letters to arrive. Bellman, meanwhile, wanders farther and farther from home, across harsh and alien landscapes, in reckless pursuit of the unknown.From Frank OConnor Award winner Carys Davies, West is a spellbinding and timeless epic-in-miniature, an eerie parable of the American frontier and an electric monument to possibility.

Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath awayWhat a thrill. Sarah Jessica ParkerWinner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, 2024 Bookmark Festival Book of the Year, and Wales Book of the YearA Vogue, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Best Book of the YearA daring and necessarysophisticated and playful (The New York Times) novel from an award-winning writer, Clear is the story of a minister dispatched to a remote island to clear its last remaining inhabitantan unforgettable tale of resilience, change, and hope.John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of ScotlandIvar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted.Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff and is found, unconscious and badly injured, by Ivar who takes him home and tends to his wounds. Clear chronicles the surprising bond that develops between these two menpack[ing] a great deal of power into a compact tale (The Wall Street Journal) about connection, home, and hopein which John begins to learn Ivars language, and Ivar sees himself reflected through the eyes of another person for the first time in decades.Unfolding during the final stages of the infamous Scottish Clearancesa period of the 19th century which saw whole communities of the rural poor driven off the land in a relentless program of forced evictionsthis singular novel explores what binds us together in the face of insurmountable difference, the way history shapes our deepest convictions, and how the human spirit can endure despite all odds. Moving and unpredictable, a love letter to the scorching power of language (The Guardian), Clear is a jewel of a novel (The Washington Post)a profound and unforgettable read.

Un home arriba a una illa remota per fer fora lúltim habitant. Una novel·la inoblidable.En John, un ministre escocès empobrit, accepta la feina de desallotjar lúltim ocupant duna illa remota al nord

Un home arriba a una illa remota per fer fora l’últim habitant. Una novel·la inoblidable.En John, un ministre escocès empobrit, accepta la feina de desallotjar l’últim ocupant d‘una illa remota al no

An important historical record and a well paced story in its own right Great Uncle Harry is also much more than that a tremendous act of love Guardian From the time many years ago when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother Harry he was determined to find out more about him The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could He studied every relevant official document He tracked down what remained of his great uncle Harry s diaries and letters and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them He walked the route Harry took on that fatal final day of his life amid the mud of northern France And as he did so a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him Great Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life A blend of biography history travelogue and personal memoir this is Michael Palin at his very finest PRAISE FOR EREBUS Beyond terrific I didn t want it to end BILL BRYSON Magisterial Palin brings energy wit and humanit

A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances from the prize winning author of West

Afectado por la pena causada por la muerte de su mujer y con una insatisfacción que no sabe ubicar, John Cyrus Bellman, un cuidador de mulas de treinta y cinco años, decide dejar su pequeña granja en Pensilvania para poner rumbo a una aventura imposible con apenas una brujula y algunas provisiones: seguir el rastro de los pioneros que aseguraron haber encontrado huesos de animales colosales en el interior del pais. Tras prometer que volvera en dos años, deja atras a su unica hija adolescente, Bess, bajo el obsesivo cuidado de su hermana Julie.La joven se ve forzada a vivir en un mundo hostil donde nadie parece reclamarla, mientras sigue los pasos de su padre a traves de los viejos mapas que encuentra en la biblioteca local e intenta eludir las atenciones que tanto su tia como ella reciben del vecino, Elmer Jackson. Mientras tanto, las aventuras de Bellman a traves