The New Life

Tom Crewe

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A brilliant and captivating debut, in the tradition of Alan Hollinghurst and Colm Tóibín, about two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London. In this powerful, visceral novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, two men collaborate on a book in defense of homosexuality, then a crime—risking their old lives in the process.

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Форма: роман
Оригинальное название: The New Life
Первая публикация: 2023
Критика
LARA FEIGEL, THE GUARDIAN (UK)
"...Crewe's virtuoso debut The New Life is one of the most embodied historical novels I have read ... Crewe's brilliance – in addition to his ability to make us feel the physical sensations – is in dramatising moral dilemmas with complexity and rigour. He's especially good at exploring the perennial conflict between private and public acts of courage and openness..."

JAMES CAHILL, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (UK)
"...Atmospheric ... As much as for its story, The New Life is compelling for its stylistic flair. Crewe's taut prose is shot through with descriptive vividness ... Occasionally the measured quality of the writing induces the desire for some kind of rupture, a break (however transient) into a different register, though that impulse is of a piece with the psychological realism: we inhabit the characters' striving after some other state of being..."
Премии
Лауреат:
- 2024 г. — Премия Бетти Траск (Победитель Премия Бетти Траск)
- 2023 г. — Премия Оруэлла за политическую литературу
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