New Releases by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel is the author of Beyond Black (2006), Giving Up the Ghost (2004), Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (2003), Der riesige O'Brien (2003), Fludd (2000).

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Beyond Black

release date: Apr 18, 2006
Beyond Black
Trouble spirals out of control for a psychic and her personal assistant when they take up with a spirit guide and his drowned therapist after moving to a suburban wasteland.

Giving Up the Ghost

release date: Sep 01, 2004
Giving Up the Ghost
New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me.” In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. But at nineteen, she became ill. Through years of misdiagnosis, she suffered patronizing psychiatric treatment and destructive surgery that left her without hope of children. Beset by pain and sadness, she decided to “write herself into being”—one novel after another. This wry and visceral memoir will certainly bring new converts to Mantel’s dark genius. “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

release date: Sep 01, 2003
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
A taut and terrifying trip into a distorting mirror--a novel as tense, immediate, and chilling as the world it depicts. "A Middle Eastern Turn of the Screw with an insidious power to grip."-Time Out

Der riesige O'Brien

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Der riesige O'Brien
Man schreibt das Jahr 1782, und Charles O''Brien flüchtet vor dem Hunger aus Irland nach London. O''Brien ist nicht nur von außerordentlicher Gestalt, er ist auch ein Barde, ein Mann der Balladen und Geschichten, der von den alten Mythen erzählt, von irischen Königen und Feen. In London, so verspricht ihm sein Freund und Impresario Joe, wird er eine Sensation sein - in jenem fernen glänzenden London der Geschäftemacher und der Wissenschaftler. Als ''der riesige O''Brien'' bietet er sich dar, und gegen gutes Geld begaffen ihn die sensationslüsternen Massen. Unter den Besuchern ist aber auch ein Mann, dessen scharfer Blick O''Brien Angst einjagt - es ist John Hunter, der Anatom und Sezierer, für seine Experimente berühmt und fieberhaft auf der Suche nach dem Geheimnis des Lebens. Als O''Brien eines Tages entdeckt, dass er erneut anfängt zu wachsen, weiß er, dass er nicht mehr lange zu leben hat. Und inzwischen hat sich auch das Publikum einer anderen, neuesten Kuriosität zugewendet, die Einna hmen bleiben aus. Wieder erscheint Hunter. Er bietet O''Brien Geld für das Recht an seiner Leiche. Ein makabrer Wettstreit um seine Knochen beginnt... Voller Atmosphäre zeichnet Hilary Mantel die bewegenden, teils bizarr komischen Schicksale und entfaltet die Geschichten ihrer Träume. Der auf historischen Fakten beruhende, brillant gezeichnete Zusammenstoß zweier Welten - von Mythos und Machbarkeitsglauben, von Kunst und Naturwissenschaft -, ist von verblüffender Aktualität.

Fludd

release date: Jun 01, 2000
Fludd
One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop. Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his plate disappears. Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action. Knitting together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous, Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.
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