Resistance

Resistance

by OwenSheers (Author)

Synopsis

Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a beautifully imagined and powerfully moving story of love and loss.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Open Market Edn.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Dec 2007

ISBN 10: 0571235409
ISBN 13: 9780571235407
Book Overview: A thrilling and emotionally intense novel set in a World War Two where Britain has been invaded.

Media Reviews
'An exceptional debut... Resistance explores with subtlety the grey areas between self- preservation and altruism... The result is impossible to resist.' Financial Times 'Sheers's lyrical prose sings.' Sunday Times
Author Bio
Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in South Wales. The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer's Award, his prose debut, The Dust Diaries, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year Award 2005.