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Resistance (Secrets and Lies Ed)

Resistance (Secrets and Lies Ed)

by OwenSheers (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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    Paperback 2007

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    Hardcover 2007

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Synopsis

1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied ...Young farmer's wife Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her remote Welsh village. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of their mission a mystery. Sarah begins a faltering acquaintance with the patrol's commanding officer, Albrecht, and it is to her that he reveals the purpose of his mission - to claim an extraordinary medieval art treasure that lies hidden in the valley. But as the pressure of the war beyond presses in on this isolated community, this fragile state of harmony is increasingly threatened.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: Secrets and Lies Edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 07 Jul 2011
ISBN 10: 0571275540
ISBN 13: 9780571275540
Book Overview: As part of Faber's Secrets and Lies series comes a thrilling and emotionally intense novel set in a World War Two where Britain has been invaded.

Media Reviews
Magical. . . . Sheers emerges as a gifted storyteller who can meld the literal and figurative to stunning--and tragic--effect. -- Newsday An astonishing and compelling study of human nature against the backdrop of an occupied village. Sheers plumbs the depths of love, cowardice, bravery, and the devastating effects of blind patriotism, and in doing so exposes the best and worst of humanity in unexpected and haunting ways. --Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants Subtle and lyrical. . . . Emotionally complex, full of local rhythms and color, Sheers' first novel is hard to resist. -- USA Today In its most surprising moments [Resistance] demonstrates fiction's unique power [to] remind us how complicated and compromising an actual act of resistance might be. -- The New York Times Book Review Sheers's alternate reality is frighteningly convincing and dripping with heartbreak. This is an outstanding debut. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A remarkable first novel...Resistance is at once a brilliant and sometimes frightening thriller, and a mature exploration of human blur and compromise. -- The Guardian Resistance [is] an impressive debut and confirms Sheers as a writer whose talent encompasses a variety of literary forms. -- Observer A beautiful, vital novel, about the paths that can lead to war, and out of it. --Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers A remarkable work of speculative imagination. Sheers writes with an austere, bracing beauty perfectly attuned to the stark lives (and loves) of his characters. The result is that rare gift, a literary thriller whose pages we turn slowly, evenregretfully, savoring every word. --Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl Owen Sheers's riveting debut novel beautifully illuminates that which is unalterable: the power of love and longing, community and courage. --Jennifer Vanderbes, author of Easter Island
Author Bio
Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer's Award, his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book was short-listed for the Welsh Book of the Year and the Forward Prize Best 1st Collection 2001. His debut prose The Dust Diaries, a travel memoir set in Zimbabwe was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year Award 2005.