EAN: 9780349727813

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES 'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL 'Excellent... Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light' GUARDIAN 'Beautiful mournful... Phillips's artistic conscience won't let her flinch from this truth but her generous heart won't let it be the last word' WASHINGTON POST In 1874 in the wake of the War erasure trauma and namelessness haunt 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 neighbor and the mountain home they knew they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their back­story: 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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