The Ecliptic

Shortlisted for The Sunday Times/ Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award On a forestedisland off the coast of Istanbul stands Portmantle, a gated refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a curious assembly of painters, architects, writers and musicians strive to restore their faded talents.Elspeth ''Knell'' Conroy is a celebrated painterwho has lost faith in her abilityand fled the dizzying art scene of 1960s London. On the island, she spends her nightslocked in her blacked-out studio, testing a strangenewpigmentfor her elusive masterpiece. But whenadisaffected teenager named Fullerton arrives at the refuge, hedisrupts its established routines. He is plagued by a recurring nightmare that steers him into danger, and Knell is left to pick apart the chilling mystery. Where did the boy come from, what is ''The Ecliptic'', and how does itrelate to their abandoned lives in England?

‘Wood has lost none of his ability to combine suspense with striking images. His fiction is playfully experimental, but never loses sight of its primary purpose: to entertain’

Autorentext

Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in the north-west of England. He is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of the highly acclaimed debut novel The Bellwether Revivals. His second novel is The Ecliptic.

Klappentext

The mesmerising new novel from the acclaimed author of The Bellwether Revivals: a rich and immersive story of love, obsession, creativity and disintegration.
On a forested island off the coast of Istanbul stands Portmantle, a gated refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a curious assembly of painters, architects, writers and musicians strive to restore their faded talents. Elspeth 'Knell' Conroy is a celebrated painter who has lost faith in her ability and fled the dizzying art scene of 1960s London. On the island, she spends her nights locked in her blacked-out studio, testing a strange new pigment for her elusive masterpiece.
But when a disaffected teenager named Fullerton arrives at the refuge, he disrupts its established routines. He is plagued by a recurring nightmare that steers him into danger, and Knell is left to pick apart the chilling mystery. Where did the boy come from, what is 'The Ecliptic', and how does it relate to their abandoned lives in England?

Zusammenfassung
A rich, multi-layered and mesmerising novel thatwill appeal to readers who love Kazuo Ishiguro, Eleanor Catton and David Mitchell