EAN: 9780349727806

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL 'Gorgeous prose attention to detail and masterful characters. Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history' KIRKUS STARRED REVIEWFrom one of our most accomplished novelists a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. In 1874 in the wake of the war trauma haunts civilians and veterans renegades and wanderers freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother Eliza who hasn't spoken in more than a year arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their lives. There far from family a beloved neighbour and the mountain home they knew they try to reclaim their lives. The twin horrors of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their history: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia the disappearance of ConaLee's father who left for the war and never returned. Meanwhile in the asylum they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility - the mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch the child called Weed the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. Epic enthralling and meticulously crafted Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds and a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.

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