The Mission House

The Mission House
Carys Davies
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
3 Jun 2021 UK
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9781783784318
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Fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life' s simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing. The Padre is concerned for Priscilla' s future, and as Hilary' s friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. The Mission House boldly and imaginatively explores post-colonial ideas in a world fractured between faith and non-belief, young and old, imperial past and nationalistic present. Tenderly subversive and meticulously crafted, it is a deeply human fable of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world.
' The Mission House is an absolute triumph. That rare type of book-resoundingly tender, and gently heart-wrenching. Carys Davies doesn' t drop a sentence. I was deeply moved, and spellbound. ' * Cynan Jones * ' An astonishingly assured and gripping piece of work and a worthy follow-up to West. Davies has a voice unlike any I' ve read: clean, otherworldly, eerily original, and capable of devastating effect' * Julie Myerson * ' A compelling read. Carys Davies has an amazing gift for summoning up a place, a situation, the characters. Her skill is that of brevity, nailing a personality with a few lines of dialogue, saying most by saying least' * Penelope Lively * ' I felt, reading this extraordinary novel, that the thorough oddity of its chief characters, their strange innocence, amounts to a revolt, on our behalf too, against the stupidity, cruelty, fanaticism and bigoted violence of the world in which they more or less successfully live their eccentric lives' * David Constantine * ' Carys Davies' enthralling fictions carry us across time and continents, and bring interior worlds to life' * Clare Messud * ' Tender, playful, piercing, light-footed-this is an irresistible novel. ' * Michelle de Kretser *
Carys Davies is the author of the novel West and two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike (published in Australia as the single collection The Travellers and Other Stories), which won the 2015 Frank O' Connor International Short Story Award and the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She is also the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature' s V. S. Pritchett Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Born in Wales, she lives in Lancaster in northwest England.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781783784318
Published: 3 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 256

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