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My Weil

Af: Lars Iyer
Engelsk Paperback
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My Weil

Af: Lars Iyer
Engelsk Paperback

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My Weil follows a group of twenty-something PhD students of the new-fangled subject Disaster Studies at an inferior university in Manchester, the post-industrial city of so much great music and culture. They''re working class, by turns underconfident and grandiose (especially when they drink) and are reconciled to never finishing their dissertations or finding academic jobs. And they''re working together on a film, through which they''re trying to make sense of their lives in Manchester and, in particular, to the Ees, a mysterious patch of countryside that appears to have supernatural qualities. Into their midst arrives Simone Weil, a PhD student, a version of the twentieth century philosopher, who becomes the unlikely star of their film. Simone is devout, ascetic, intensely serious, and busy with risky charity work with the homeless. Valentine, hustler-philosopher, recognises Simone as a fellow would-be saint. But Gita, Indian posh-girl, is suspicious: what''s with Simone''s nun-shoes? And Marcie, the leader of the pack, is too busy with her current infatuation, nicknamed Ultimate Destruction Girl, to notice. The narrator, Donny, who was brought up in care and is psychologically fragile, and deeply disturbed by the poverty of his adopted city, gradually falls in love with Simone. But will his love be requited? Will Simone be able to save the souls of her new friends and Manchester itself from apocalypse?
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781685890605
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1685890601
Udg. Dato:
29 aug 2023
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
455mm
Højde:
208mm
Forlag:
Melville House Publishing
Oplagsdato:
29 aug 2023
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