Haweswater

Resumen del libro

The prizewinning debut from Britain's most exciting contemporary novelist. In a remote dale in a northern English county, a centuries-old rural community has survived into the mid-1930s almost unchanged. But then Jack Liggett drives in from the city, the spokesman for a Manchester waterworks company with designs on the landscape for a vast new reservoir.

The dale must be evacuated, flooded, devastated; its water pumped to the Midlands and its community left in ruins. Liggett further compounds the village's problems when he begins a troubled affair with Janet Lightburn, a local woman of force and character who is driven to desperate measures in an attempt to save the valley. Told in luminous prose, with an intuitive sense for period and place, Haweswater remembers a rural England that has been lost for many decades.

Biografía del autor

Sarah Hall, una de las mejores novelistas jóvenes del Reino Unido según la revista "Granta", ha ganado en dos ocasiones el Premio Portico, y también ha sido galardonada con el Premio Betty Trask, el Premio Commonwealth a la primera novela, el Premio BBC de relato, el Premio John Llewellyn Rhys, el Premio E. M. Forster... "Madera quemada", su sexta novela, es la historia de un amor confinado, una experiencia sublime y abrasadora, una elegía que ningún lector olvidará.