Night Watch : Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024

THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN FICTION 'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES 'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL A mesmerising 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. Night Watch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 on 6 May 2024Author: Phillips, Jayne Anne,author
Contributors: Phillips, Jayne Anne,author
Binding: hardcover
Number Of Pages: 304
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language
Published/Release Date: 25 Jan 2024
Format: Hardback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Little, Brown Book Group
Author/Director/Artist: Jayne Anne Phillips
Dimension (cm): 236x156x34 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 31x240x162 mm
Item Weight (g): 531
Package Weight (g): 530