J. L. Carr

L& x02019;any 1920, un jove artista anomenat Tom Birkin, que acaba de tornar de la guerra i que encara no s& x02019;ha recuperat de la devastació que hi ha hagut de presenciar, viatja a Oxgod

Un clásico contemporáneo en torno al amor inesperado, por el que no pasa el tiempo.Una mañana lluviosa, Tom Birkin se apea en la estación de tren del pequeño pueblo de Oxgodby, con un mapa, un abrigo de tweed de segunda mano, un capazo y una cama de campaña plegable por todo equipaje. Es un superviviente de la Primera Gran Guerra, su mujer lo ha abandonado y todavia arrastra secuelas de sus traumaticas experiencias en las trincheras de Francia. Por eso ha aceptado un trabajo en el norte: restaurar un mural medieval de la iglesia de Oxgodby. Tal vez el tranquilo y sencillo entorno le devuelva ese apego a la vida que el pasado le arrebato. Poco a poco, Tom se acerca a los habitantes del lugar, a personajes singulares e inolvidables, surge la amistad. Y quizas, tambien, el amor.

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country was first published in 1980. Tom Birkin, a damaged survivor of World War One, is spending the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting in the village church of Oxgodby. Joined by another veteran, employed to look for a grave outside the churchyard, he uncovers old secrets that bear on his experiences of conflict.

Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, in their new all-buttercup-yellow stripe, start it by ravaging the Fenland League and end it with a phenomenal nail-biter against Glasgow Rangers.

Durant lété 1920, deux rescapés de la Première Guerre mondiale, Tom Birkin et Charles Moon, se retrouvent au coeur de la campagne anglaise. Tandis que le premier restaure une fresque médiévale, le se

In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave.

A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enterand fully embracenormal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carrs deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painters depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.

One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece DJ TaylorBut is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.J.L. CarrIn their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are Englands most obscure team. This uncategorizable, surreal and extremely funny novel is the story of how they start the season by ravaging the Fenland League and end it by going all the way to Wembley.Told through unreliable recollection, florid local newspaper coverage and bizarre committee minutes, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is both entertaining and moving. There will never be players again like Alex Slingsby, Sid the Shooting Star Swift and the immortal milkman-turned-goalkeeper, Monkey Tonks.

Tender and elegantGuardianUnlike anything else in modern English literature D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years. Adapted into a film starring Colin Firth, Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh, A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War.With an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald

La divertidísima novela que narra la epopeya protagonizada por un humilde club de fútbol inglésCon su flamante uniforme amarillo, el Steeple Sinderby Wanderers—cuyos integrantes ya se dan con un cant