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One of Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of the Year - Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize - Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize - An Irish Times Best Book of the Year "One of the most beautiful novels I have ever read." --New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed novel about a couple who, pushing against traditional expectations, move with their dogs to the Irish countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make attempts to disappear from society.It is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another--one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they've drifted.They arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain gently and unspectacularly ascends from the Atlantic, "as if it had accumulated stature over centuries. As if, over centuries, it had steadily flattened itself upwards." They make a promise to climb the mountain, but--over the course of the next seven years--it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and as their interest in the wider world recedes.Seven Steeples is a beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of nature. Through Bell and Sigh, and the life they create for themselves, Sara Baume explores what it means to escape the traditional paths laid out before us--and what it means to evolve in devotion to another person, and to the landscape.

A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young for giving up', and one eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts.

She writes beyond the time we live in.â?? Colum McCannStruggling to cope with urban life â?? and with life in general â?? Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to the rural bungalow on â??turbine hillâ?? that has been vacant since her grandmotherâ??s death three years earlier.

A critically acclaimed debut novel praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" (Eimear McBride), this captivating story follows a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog.It is springtime, and two outcasts--a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life--find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small seaside town falsely perceives menace where there is only mishap--and the duo must take to the road. Gorgeously written in poetic and mesmerizing prose, Spill Simmer Falter Wither is one of those rare stories that utterly and completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see. It transforms us in our understanding not only of the world, but also of ourselves. Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature * Winner of the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award * Short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award * Long-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize * Long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award 2015, Readers' Choice * Long-listed for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 * Long-listed for 2015 Edinburgh First Novel Award "A deeply attuned portrait of the human mind...An unsettling literary surprise of the best sort."--Atlantic "This book is like a flame in daylight: beautiful and unexpected."--Anne Enright "A man-and-his-dog story like no other."--San Francisco Chronicle " Spill Simmer Falter Wither] hums with its own distinctiveness."--Guardian (UK)

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize "Baume is a writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in."--Colum McCann "Baume leaves nothing unturned in this dark and sometimes funny excavation of the human heart." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Fascinating, because of the cumulative power of the precise, pleasingly rhythmic sentences, and the unpredictable intelligence of the narrator's mind." --Guardian Struggling to cope with urban life--and life in general--Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family's rural house on "turbine hill," vacant since her grandmother's death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by countryside and wild creatures, that she can finally grapple with the chain of events that led her here--her shaky mental health, her difficult time in art school--and maybe, just maybe, regain her footing in art and life. As Frankie picks up photography once more, closely examining the natural world around her, she reconsiders seminal works of art and their relevance. With "prose that makes sure we look and listen,"* Sara Baume has written an elegant novel that is as much an exploration of wildness, the art world, mental illness, and community as it is a profoundly beautiful and powerful meditation on life. *Atlantic "Baume's writing is near-faultless." --Financial Times "A novel of uniqueness, wonder, recognition, poignancy, truth-speaking, quiet power, strange beauty, and luminous bedazzlement." -- Joseph O'Connor

Taking place in a remote house in the south-west of Ireland, this rich and vivid novel spans seven years and speaks to the times we live in, asking how we may withdraw, how better to live in the natural world, and how the choices made or avoided lead us home.

‘Every devotee of literature and art should read this rare, bright-lit, hard-won book, and every student of life — that is to say, everyone.' - Sebastian Barry In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to try to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images from a work-in-progress, handiwork offers observations that are at once gentle and devastating on grief, renewal, and the migration of birds. handiwork is Baume’s non-fiction debut, written with the keen eye for nature and beauty as well as the extraordinary versatility Sara Baume’s fans have come to expect.

Irsk debutroman”Imponerende” Times Literary Supplement ”En talentfuld og begavet debut” Guardian ”Baumes forundringsevne forvandler dette portræt af et usædvanligt venskab til en kraftfuld fortælling om selve det menneskelige” New StatesmanEn roman om randeksistens, om at leve under radaren, om medmenneskelighed og det stik modsatte.

? ? ? ? ?Politiken"Ekstraordinær" Politiken"Fascinerende" GuardianIrske Sara Baume tog læserne med storm i sin umådeligt smukke debutroman vælde vokse vakle visne, og i hendes anden roman lever hun op til forventningerne, med en stadig sart og seismografisk, men denne gang også nærmest humoristisk-sarkastisk skrivestil.Linje trådt af trin er en roman om kreativitet og depression; en ganske ung kunsthistoriker opholder sig i sin afdøde mormors hus og prøver at finde ro til at finde ud af, hvad der er op og ned i tilværelsen.Hele tiden tester hun sin hukommelse ved at remse kunstværker af op, ligesom hun holder sig beskæftiget med bl.a. at fotografere døde dyr, alt imens hun undviger fra at se sig selv i spejlet, især i den mentale betydning.

Bell og Sigh var nysgerrige efter at se hvad der ville ske når to misantropiske enspændere forsøgte at leve sammen … Sara Baumes tredje roman er stor, irsk samtidslitteratur: Flyt med Bell og Sigh – og deres to hunde, Pip og Voss – ud til kysten for foden af bjerget med øjet. Og lær at se. ”Drømmeagtig og vidunderlig … minder meget om midterpassagen i Virginia Woolfs To the Lighthouse; den åndeløst bevægende beskrivelse af tiden der passerer igennem et tomt hus, det akkumulerede tab” The Guardian ”En af de smukkeste romaner jeg nogensinde har læst” New York Times Book Review Blandt Wall Street Journals 10 Best Books of the YearNomineret til the Goldsmiths PrizeNomineret til The Dylan Thomas PrizeSara Baume (f. 1984) er opvokset i County Cork, Irland, uddannet fra bl.a. Trinity College, Dublin, og er nu billedkunstner og forfatter i West Cork, hvor hun bor med sin kæreste og deres hunde. Syv rejste sten er hendes tredje roman på dansk. Læs også anmelderroste Vælde vokse vakle visne (2018) og Linje trådt af trin (2019).

"Det är bara på söndagarna som hon slutar önska att tiden gick fortare. Det är bara i vadarbyxor med saltvatten upp till midjan som hon känner sig lugn, tröstad av trycket från havet. Det är bara när hon väntar på att det ska nappa som hon nöjer sig med att inte göra något annat än att vänta." I den lilla kuststaden där avloppsvattnet sprutar rakt ut i havet och toalettrullen på pubens damtoalett inte byts ut på ett helt år drömmer Phil om en fisk som är näst intill omöjlig att fånga. Sjötungans sång skildrar en vinter då det stormar värre än någonsin, hundar försvinner under mystiska omständigheter och vardagens grådis mörknar till nattsvart. SARA BAUME är en irländsk konstnär och författare. För novellen Sjötungans sång erhöll hon Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2014 och våren 2023 utnämnde tidskriften Granta henne till en av Storbritanniens bästa unga författare.

'I met Mollie's paintings before I met Mollie.' Shortly after the imposed isolation of the pandemic, Sara Baume came across a painting at a pop-up exhibition in a renovated shed in rural West Cork. It so intrigued her that she was inspired to make contact with the artist. Mollie Douthit, a North Dakotan exile, was living and working alone in a log cabin down a ravaged laneway surrounded by rugged coastline. Sara and Mollie discovered they had much in common - a dysfunctional attitude towards companionship, a devotion to the daily rituals of their respective art practices, an affinity with nature. They started to meet every month for soup and punishing swims in the Atlantic. Sara fell under the spell of Mollie's paintings, pictures that welded memory and reality, and gradually started to write about them, curious as to whether any particular insight might be provided by the intimacy of friendship with the artist, and whether it might be possible to craft a book in the style of the paintings. But what she had not anticipated was that a settled period in her own life would coincide with a period of tumultuous change for Mollie, and soon she found herself squabbling with more complex ideas, about community and nationality, about neurosis and mysticism, about love and pain and the power of art.