- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Mooney's bookstore, Den Helder, NetherlandsMooney's bookstore
AbeBooks seller since June 10, 2024
Condition: Used - As new
£ 37.61
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSeller Inventory # 4720A54FAA24CF5
- Title
- Tasting Sunlight
- Author
- Ewald Arenz
- Publisher
- Orenda Books
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1914585143
- ISBN 13
- 9781914585142
‘Such a timely tale … hopeful and poignant and lyrically told. A truly compassionate and heartening book’ Culturefly
‘Poetic in places and, as the title suggests, highly sensory … a genuinely hopeful and open-hearted novel’ Irish Times
'Tasting Sunlight reminded me of reading Sally Rooney's Normal People. It takes a writer of immeasurable talent to make you feel that intensely, merely by evoking ripening late summer fruit and the sound of rain on dusty ground' Elizabeth Haynes
'Powerful, original and engaging. I loved it' Susie Boyt
**Tasting Sunlight is a BBC World Service WORLD BOOK CLUB PICK**
**Over 600,000 copies sold in Germany**
**THREE YEARS on the German Bestseller List**
_________________
Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she is being treated for anorexia. She's furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace.
Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs single-handedly. She has little contact with the outside world, and no need for other people.
From their first meeting, Sally realises that Liss isn't like other adults; she expects nothing of Sally and simply accepts who she is, offering her a bed for the night with no questions asked.
That night becomes weeks and then months, as an unlikely friendship develops and these two damaged women slowly open up – connecting to each other, reconnecting with themselves, and facing the darkness in their pasts through their shared work on the land.
Achingly beautiful, profound, invigorating and uplifting, Tasting Sunlight is a story of friendship across generations, of love and acceptance, of the power of nature to heal and transform, and the goodness that surrounds us, if only we take time to see it…
______________
‘A subtle, beautiful, luminous novel about the healing powers of nature, friendship and acceptance’ Saga magazine
'Written with beautiful simplicity, this sensitive and profound story examines how we heal and help each other, delivered with deep insight and huge heart' Doug Johnstone
'A sensory joy; a novel of quiet, understated beauty … Original, luminous and intense, it's a mesmerising read' Iona Gray
'A stupendous debut. A triumph. Don't miss it' Louisa Treger
'A truly special book. Powerful, lyrical and profoundly affecting, Ewald Arenz spins a tale of friendship, restoration and possibility, with utmost heart and care. I loved it!' Miranda Dickinson
'An exquisitely written, heart-warming story … the smells, tastes, sounds and rhythms of nature are described with sensuous clarity, so you feel as if you are there, picking potatoes from the earth, tending the bees, and tasting the pears. Just beautiful!' Gill Paul
'Told with honesty and a clear-sighted understanding of human nature … I loved it' Michael J. Malone
'The simple minutiae of everyday life becomes intricate and essential: rituals that connect one woman to the land and her heritage, and show a lost, younger one a different truth. Moving and heart-wrenching, but ultimately uplifting' Carol Lovekin
'Breathtakingly beautiful' Louise Beech
'A simply wonderful, heartwarming read…' Fiona Sharp, Bookseller
What readers are saying…
'A story that breaks your heart, and fills it too' Bookly Matters
'The perfect story for our time … uplifting, healing and truly exceptional' Random Things through My Letterbox
'Poignantly, gently and profoundly evocative' TripFiction
'Beautiful, at times brutal, and honest … I absolutely loved it' Claire Clarke
'A special, beautiful novel' Café Thinking
'An absolute joy' Danielle Louise
'It touched my soul' Live & Deadly
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Rachel Ward is a freelance translator of literary and creative texts from German and French to English. Having always been an avid reader and enjoyed word games and puzzles, she discovered a flair for languages at school and went on to study modern languages at the University of East Anglia. She spent the third year working as a language assistant at two grammar schools in Saaebrücken, Germany. During her final year, she realised that she wanted to put these skills and passions to use professionally and applied for UEA’s MA in Literary Translation, which she completed in 2002. Her published translations include Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang and Red Rage by Brigitte Blobel, and she is a Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting.
Follow Rachel on Twitter @FwdTranslations, on her blog www.adiscounttickettoeverywhere.wordpress.com and on her website www.forwardtranslations.co.uk
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Mooney's bookstore
Den Helder, Netherlands
AbeBooks seller since June 10, 2024
Shipping rates from Netherlands to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 21 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 12.54 | £ 29.31 |
Payment methods
Specialty
Historical books, Dutch books, Art booksSeller's business information
Mooney's bookstore
Netherlands
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Mooney's bookstore, Den Helder, Netherlands, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.