The Bear : Women's Prize for Fiction 2014

ISBN-13: 9780099581468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str.

Claire Cameron

Opis

Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. Something big is moving in the shadows. Their father is terrified. Their mother is screaming. Then, suddenly, silence. Alone in the woods, it is Anna who has to look after Stick, battling hunger and the elements to stay alive.

Recenzje

Bold...shocking...distinctive...the reward is striking images that stick in the mind, a blend of Anna's interpretations of events and the reader's imagination. It was even more haunting the second time around Independent

O autorze

Claire Cameron is a novelist and writer, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Globe and Mail, and The Rumpus. She worked as a wilderness instructor for Outward Bound and in the early 1990s led canoe trips at a summer camp in Algonquin Park in Canada. This story is inspired by her experiences there. She now lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.