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An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

The sensational new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack - Jack Robinson, as in `before you can say' - is everyone's favourite compere, a born entertainer, holding the whole show together. As the summer progresses, the off-stage drama between the three begins to overshadow their theatrical success, and events unfold which will have lasting consequences for all their futures. Rich, comic, alive and subtly devastating, Here We Are is a masterly piece of literary magicianship which pulls back the curtain on the human condition. Praise for Mothering Sunday: 'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian `Alive with sensuousness and sensuality ... wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement' Sunday Times `From start to finish Swift's is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game' Evening Standard `Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... It may just be Swift's best novel yet' Observer

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Mothering Sunday and winner of the Booker Prize

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Margate. For reasons best known to herself, Jack’s widow, Amy, declines to join them . . . On the surface a simple tale of an increasingly bizarre day’s outing, this Booker-prize winning, internationally acclaimed novel is a resonant and classic exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. Intensely local but overwhelmingly universal, faithful to the fleeting rhythms and accidental eloquence of everyday speech but also to the timeless truths of life and death, it succeeds in being comic and heartstopping, affectionate and wise, and in conferring on its stumbling, disappointed characters an enduring decency, dignity and depth. ‘A surpassing testament to Swift’s vibrant and powerful gifts’ The Times‘A triumph . . . a story about the most fundamental things of all’ Evening Standard

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner?The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels by the winner of The Booker Prize One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history—and tell stories . . .Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two families, startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. Compulsively readable, it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness, mixing human and natural history and exploring the tragic forces that take us both forwards and back. It is also a book about beer, eels, the French Revolution, the end of the world, windmills, will-o’-the-wisps, murder, love, education, curiosity and—supremely—the malign and merciful element of water.‘A quite brilliant novel’ Daily Telegraph‘Inspired’ New York Times

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.

This novel of love in the world of 1950s vaudeville is a masterwork of literary magic from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Mothering Sunday It is 1959 in Brighton, England, and the theater at the end of the famous pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing a full house every night. And Jack is everyone's favorite master of ceremonies, holding the whole show together. But as the summer progresses, the drama among the three begins to overshadow their success onstage, setting in motion events that will reshape their lives. Vividly realized, tenderly comic, and quietly shattering, Here We Are is a masterly work of literary magic.

Vi befinner oss i Brighton sommeren 1959, og teateret på piren har sin beste sesong på årevis. Magikeren Ronnie og hans trollbindende assistent Evie framfører kveld etter kveld de mest halsbrekkende kunster, mens Jack – den perfekte entertainer – binder sammen forestillingen på spektakulært vis. På scenen er de den perfekte trio, men når scenelyset slås av, utspiller det seg et trekantdrama som overgår enhver forestilling. Da teppet faller for siste gang den sommeren, framfører Ronnie sitt fremste triks til da og forsvinner sporløst. 50 år senere stiller Evie seg de samme spørsmålene som da: Lever Ronnie, og kunne livet hennes blitt et annet? Bookerpris-vinneren Graham Swift mottok strålende kritikker for sin forrige roman Morsdag (2017), og også denne gangen beskriver han historiens og minnenes forgjengelighet. Med Her er vi åpner han dørene til en svunnen æra av magi, til et England som i etterspillet av andre verdenskrig lengter etter å bli forført, om enn for en skakket stund. «Et raffinert portrett av en svunnen verden.» The Independent«Menneskets behov for virkelighetsflukt og illusjonsmakeri, både gjennom og på grunn av minnene vi bærer på, undersøkes på elegant vis i Her er vi. Swift tilbyr dermed et øyeblikks underlig flukt inn i en magisk verden og svunnen tid, som slettes ikke er å forakte.» Anna Serafima S. Kvam, Stavanger Aftenblad«Han forteller lettfattelige, oppriktige historier om det som føles som ekte mennesker. Her er vi er et velkomment bidrag til en stolt arv.» The Bis Issue«De mange stemmene og bokens historiske og emosjonelle rekkevidde er så finmasket at overflaten blir glatt som et egg. Enkeltpassasjer skiller seg ut og krever å bli gjenlest eller fester seg til minnet … å si at Swift skaper en form for fiksjonell magi er kanskje å forsimple det hele, men det han skaper ut av én side er ekstraordinært, langt ut over hva vanlige dødelige kan begripe.» The Herald«Her er vi er et raffinert portrett av en svunnen verden, med bevegende passasjer om de evakuerte som etter andre verdenskrig, som etter en magisk tilværelse på landet vender tilbake til et fattigslig byliv i London.» The Independent«Som med alle av Swifts bøker, er det de øyeblikkene av stille, udramatiske sinnsstemninger som blir ved deg.» Sunday Express«En dempet, skjellsettende og magisk roman.» Telegraph«På magisk vis maner Swift fram en verden som er i ferd med å forsvinne og skaper det om til noe som resonnerer bredt.» Sunday Times