Benjamin Wood Bücher
Benjamin Wood schafft Erzählungen, die sich mit komplexen Beziehungen und existenziellen Themen auseinandersetzen und oft die komplexen Landschaften der menschlichen Psyche sowie unsere Fähigkeit zur Selbstkenntnis und Empathie erforschen. Seine Prosa zeichnet sich durch eine sorgfältig ausgearbeitete Stimme und eine Atmosphäre aus, die den Leser zu tiefgründiger Kontemplation hinreißt. Wood baut meisterhaft Spannung und moralische Ambiguität auf, die zum Nachdenken über die Natur von Realität und Identität anregen. Seine Werke bieten eine eindringliche Untersuchung des menschlichen Daseins.
In the summer of 1952, Joyce and Charlie Savigear are waiting on a railway platform in the quiet English countryside. The siblings have just been released from borstal to start a new life as apprentices at Leventree, an architecture practice with a difference.The architects who've chosen them are Florence and Arthur Mayhood, a married couple motivated to give young offenders second chances. At first, they seem to offer the Savigears a steady path to happiness. But when a menacing figure from Joyce's past comes knocking, they are lured back to the world they left behind. Will the Mayhoods' goodwill be enough to steer their young apprentices away from danger, or will the darkness of their past catch up with them?***PRAISE FOR BENJAMIN WOOD***'A novelist to watch' - The Times, on The Ecliptic'A resounding achievement . . . Rich, beautiful and written by an author of great depth and resource' - Guardian, on The Ecliptic'Exhilarating, earthy, cerebral, frank and unflinching . . . A masterfully paced and suspenseful read' - Independent, on The Ecliptic'A tremendous achievement, an unputdownable domestic thriller that is also subtle and moving ... a tour de force' Sunday Times, on A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a Cambridge nursing home, until the fateful day when he is lured into King's College chapel by the otherworldly sound of an organ. There he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether and her privileged, eccentric clique, led by her brother Eden. A troubled but charismatic music prodigy, Eden convinces his sister and their friends to participate in a series of disturbing experiments. However, as the line between genius and madness begins to blur, Oscar fears that danger could await them all ...
Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China
- 362 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and wonderful stories from the back blocks of the American South in the 1950s through to the glittering skylines of the 21st century. His design of the Xintiandi area of Shanghai set the standard for urban renewal across all of China's cities, but that's just the beginning of the amazing tales he has to tell in Into The Dragon's Mouth. A post-war Huckleberry Finn growing up in Georgia, Ben drove across the country while in high school, partook in the Summer of Love, and flew Phantom fighter jets with the USAF in Europe at the height of the Cold War. But his life's work has been the re-imagining of urban life. Ben's approach to architectural design is unique and the stories around all he has done are colorful, thought-provoking and emotionally-driven. Through this marvelous book, redolent of the style of the great Southern story-tellers, Ben Wood weaves a deep wisdom and philosophy, as well as perspectives on China and the United States from one who has seen and done far more than most.