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The Element of Water

The Element of Water

by StevieDavies (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

    $3.70
Synopsis

In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconcile their childhood friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit. Thirteen years later, their children meet: a woman and a man exposed to the sins of their fathers.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 2nd New edition
 Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 01 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 1912681153
ISBN 13: 9781912681150
Book Overview: Longlisted for the Booker Prize Library of Wales edition Foreword by Kirsti Bohata

Media Reviews
`Davies's fusion of past and present is masterly. A revelation' -Independent `A timely study of race, identity, prejudice and forgiveness' -Big Issue `Resonating with poignant imagery, this outstanding novel examines the best and worst of human nature' - The Times
Author Bio
Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, though she lived in Swansea, Wales from a week old, and spent a nomadic childhood in Egypt, Scotland and Germany. After studying at Manchester University, sh went on to lecture there, returning to Swansea in 2001. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University. Stevie is both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Her latest novel, Awakening, published by Parthian in 2013, was her twelfth. Stevie has won numerous awards for her fiction, and has been long-listed for the Booker and Orange Prizes. Several of her books have been adapted into radio and screenplays. She writes for the Guardian and Independent newspapers, and is a passionate sea-swimmer, cyclist and walker on the Gower.