GHOSTLAND - IN SEARCH OF A HAUNTED COUNTRY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020
In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death.
In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the 'sequestered places' of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands. He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children's fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift's Waterland to the archetypal 'folk horror' film The Wicker Man
Ghostland is Parnell's moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists - and what is haunting him. It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
PARNELL EDWARD
Edward Parnell es un escritor británico contemporáneo, autor de la aclamada obra Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country 2019 , donde explora la tradición del paisaje inglés y su relación con lo sobrenatural. Su estilo combina memoria personal, historia cultural y literatura gótica. Ha colaborado en proyectos como Eerie East Anglia para la British Library y es reconocido por su capacidad de entrelazar ensayo y narrativa. Con Ghostland obtuvo premios y elogios de la crítica, consolidándose como una voz destacada en la literatura británica de lo extraño y lo fantástico.
