Peace Talks by Tim Finch (English) Paperback Book

Description: Peace Talks by Tim Finch A moving and direct study of frailty, love and time and luck and grief GuardianEdvard Behrends is a diplomat, highly regarded for his work on international peace negotiations. Under his arbitration, unimaginable atrocities are coolly dissected; invisible lines, grown taut and frayed with conflict, redrawn.In his latest post, Edvard has been sent to a nondescript hotel in the Tyrol. High up on this mountain, the air is bright and clear.He confides in no one – no one but his wife Anna. Anna, who he loves with all his heart; Anna, always present and yet forever absent. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Tim Finch is a leading campaigner & writer on refugee and migrant issues and the author of one previous novel, The House of Journalists. His writing has been published in the The Times, Guardian and Spectator. He has broadcast frequently on the BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and CNN. He formerly worked as a director of the leading think tank IPPR, was a director at the Refugee Council and worked as a senior political journalist at the BBC. He is the founder of two charities, Sponsor Refugees and Counterpoints Arts, and also founded the migration communications agency IMIX. He collaborated with the artist Ai Weiwei on his acclaimed 2017 documentary Human Flow. He lives in London. Review A tender and elegant portrait of a grieving individual searching for personal and political peace * Sunday Times *Tim Finchs elegant and wintry novel has something of the feel of early Kazuo Ishiguro, and a similar acute grasp of both character and situation ... In Behrends, Finch has created a narrator both open and opaque * Observer *There are war stories and there are love stories, but we only occasionally get war stories and love stories braided together … A wonderful novel, tiny and epic both. Laced with humour and sadness, this is an intimate account of what it means to make peace -- Colum McCannA shrewd delight * independent.co.uk *A profound novel about human frailty … In its tone and minor-key approach, Peace Talks is reminiscent of the Julian Barnes of Levels of Life, plus lashings of (duly credited) James Salter … Peace Talks turns out to be a moving and direct study of frailty , love and time, and luck and grief , of what is left when all the noise – of machination, violence and competing stories – is stripped away * Guardian *A feat of telling ... Masterfully rendered * Spectator *As well as shining a light on the conflict resolution industry, Finch plays a canny game with our assumptions about the motives behind Annas murder, in a smart tale slyly engineered to warn against the perils of nationalist tub-thumping * Daily Mail * Promotional A taut and luminous love story about peace, violence, and conflict negotiation; of the ceaseless mediation between loss and the human heart Review Quote Tim Finchs elegant and wintry novel has something of the feel of early Kazuo Ishiguro, and a similar acute grasp of both character and situation ... In Behrends, Finch has created a narrator both open and opaque Promotional "Headline" A taut and luminous love story about peace, violence, and conflict negotiation; of the ceaseless mediation between loss and the human heart Feature Tender and devastating, Peace Talks will is the perfect read for fans of Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Jane Gardam Details ISBN1526611686 Author Tim Finch Pages 224 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1526611686 ISBN-13 9781526611680 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2021-04-01 Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-04-01 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2021-04-01 DEWEY 823.92 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-07-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161574814;

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