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Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this “cinematically plotted...radiant” (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day. Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life...

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1972, sur l'île de Heybeliada au large d'Istanbul, le refuge de Portmantle accueille des artistes en burn-out. Knell, talentueuse peintre écossaise, y vit depuis une dizaine d'années quand son quotidien est chamboulé par l'arrivée de Fullerton, un nouveau venu instable, qu'elle retrouve bientôt noyé dans sa baignoire. Cet événement l'oblige à considérer d'un œil différent ce refuge régi par des lois singulières. Elle replongera aussi dans sa jeunesse en Écosse et dans ses années de formation dans le Londres des sixties.

Früh am Morgen bei Niedrigwasser fährt er mit Pferd und Kutsche los, um sich den Unterhalt für den Tag zu verdienen, ein Leben von der Hand in den Mund. Als der amerikanische Regisseur Edgar Acheson in der Stadt eintrifft, wird Thomas' vermeintlich einfaches Leben erschüttert. Er bekommt eine Ahnung von der großen, weiten Welt, davon, was da draußen auf ihn warten könnte, und schließt Freundschaft mit dem Mann, der in jeder Hinsicht anders ist als er.

In 2014 the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were consolidating their control over a vast area of the Middle East. They singled out the Yazidis, adherents of an ancient monotheistic religion, for annihilation. Unlike Christians or Jews, who were seen as "people of the book," Yazidis were classified as pagans and therefore subject to extermination. The men were to be executed and the women and children enslaved. In August ISIS fighters attacked Sinjar, an Iraqi city inhabited mostly by Yazidis.