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The hum of concrete feeling the heart of the city

Solding, Anna more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: MidnightSun Publishing Pty
Imprint: MidnightSun Publishing Pty
Publication Date: 1/02/2012
Place of Publication: Australia

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AUSTRALIAN. The Hum of Concrete is an evocative novel about a city and its people. Set in the multicultural city of Malmo, Sweden, The Hum of Concrete is the story of five people whose lives intersect. With photographic precision, Anna Solding captures both light and shadow found in the fleeting beauty of everyday life. From the silences between people and the ordinariness of places, she conjures narrative jewels of intelligence and pleasure. ‘The characters are treated with heartwarming tenderness … the Swedish settings vividly realised.’ – Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee.

'Few novels invite you in as irresistibly as this one, and few give you as exhilarating and surprising a ride. Anna Solding writes with such tenderness, intelligence and invention. A novel to love and explore with and return to, and a most compelling and intriguing new voice in Australian writing.' - Peter Bishop, Varuna - The Writers' House. 'The characters are treated with heartwarming tenderness... the Swedish settings vividly realized.' - J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate in Literature. 'Anna Solding's spare and sensual prose... weaves a magical intimacy into the cycle of birth, sex and death in the city, and it does not look away from seeing hope.' - Brian Castro, author of The Bath Fugues and Drift.

Title: The hum of concrete
Subtitle: feeling the heart of the city
Contributors: By (author) Anna Solding

ISBN 13: 9780987226501
ISBN 10: 0987226509

Publisher: MidnightSun Publishing Pty
Imprint: MidnightSun Publishing Pty
Publication Date: 1/02/2012
Place of Publication: Kensington Park, Australia
Edition:

BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: Unclassifiable: no BIC
Dewey Classification: A823.00 (DC23) ; A821 (DC22) ; A823.00 (DC22)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 240g