Graham Swift: 21 books

Book cover of Einen Elefanten basteln

Einen Elefanten basteln

Vom Leben im Schreiben

by Graham Swift
Language: German
Release Date: April 18, 2019

»Man liest dieses Buch und möchte mit Swift sofort befreundet sein.« The Washington Times Am Anfang steht der geheime Wunsch, Schriftsteller zu werden. Das Studium in Cambridge muss warten, vorher zieht es den jungen Graham Swift raus in die Welt: Rucksackreisen in Krisengebiete, in der...
Book cover of Il paese dell'acqua
by Graham Swift, Graham Swift
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 28, 2016

Thomas Crick vive nei Fens, le terre bonificate e «sottratte all’acqua» dell’Inghilterra orientale: «un paesaggio che, tra tutti i paesaggi, è quello che più si avvicina al Nulla», un luogo in cui le azioni degli uomini sembrano costantemente soccombere alle forze elementari della natura....
Book cover of Making an Elephant
by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009

In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift—Booker Prize-winning author of Waterland and Last Orders—gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’s life.   Here Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar; Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas...
Book cover of England and Other Stories
by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

From the Booker Prize–winning author of Last Orders and Wish You Were Here, his first new book of short fiction in nearly thirty years: beautifully crafted, piercingly observant stories that unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary...
Book cover of Learning to Swim

Learning to Swim

And Other Stories

by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012

The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee...
Book cover of Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday

A Romance

by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers’ assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen. For almost all of those...
Book cover of The Light of Day
by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, revisits the catastrophes of his past and reaffirms the extraordinary direction of his future. Two years before, an assignment to follow a strayed husband and his mistress appeared simple enough,...
Book cover of Ever After
by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012

Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of his beautify...
Book cover of England und andere Stories
by Graham Swift
Language: German
Release Date: April 22, 2016

Feinsinnige Geschichten – mitten aus dem Leben Warum bricht es einem Vater fast das Herz, als er auf seiner wöchentlichen Einkaufstour eine Packung Fusilli in den Wagen legt? Was geht einem Zwölfjährigen durch den Kopf, bevor er seiner Mutter das Küchenmesser klaut? Was hält eine junge...
Book cover of Last Orders
by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012

Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual...
Book cover of Waterland
by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012

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. "Waterland,...
Book cover of Wärst du doch hier
by Graham Swift
Language: German
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Die Liebe, die Pflicht, das Land, der Sex, der Tod und die Freiheit Jack Luxton blickt aus dem Fenster seines Schlafzimmers, hinter ihm, auf dem Bett, liegt ein Gewehr. Ellie, seine Frau, sitzt ein paar Meilen entfernt in ihrem am Straßenrand geparkten Wagen, während draußen ein tosender...
Book cover of Ein Festtag

Ein Festtag

Roman

by Graham Swift
Language: German
Release Date: May 5, 2017

Graham Swifts Meisterwerk Jane, das junge Dienstmädchen von Beechwood, und Paul, der Spross aus begütertem Haus, haben ein Verhältnis. Heimliche Botschaften, verschwiegene Treffen, doch heute, an diesem sonnigen Märzsonntag 1924, darf Jane – Familie und Dienerschaft sind ausgeflogen – ihr...
Book cover of Wish You Were Here
by Graham Swift
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed Last Orders, The Light of Day, and Waterland, a powerfully moving new novel set in present-day England, but against the background of a global "war on terror" and about things that touch our human core. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight,...
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