JONATHAN STRANGE MR NORRELL - ANNIVERSARY EDITION - STRANGE NORRELL 1
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab
Over 4 million copies sold
'The book I wish I'd written' R F Kuang
'Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous' Katherine Rundell
'A modern masterpiece' Spectator
1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.
Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men - which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine
'Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint' Guardian
SUSSANNA CLARKE
Susanna Clarke's debut novel Jonathan Strange Mr Norrell was first published in more than 34 countries and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. Piranesi was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, the RSL Encore Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Susanna Clarke lives in Derbyshire.
Edad: adultos
CLARKE SUSANNA
Susanna Mary Clarke nació el 1 de noviembre de 1959 en Nottingham, Reino Unido. Estudió en el St Hilda's College de la Universidad de Oxford, donde se especializó en Filosofía, Política y Economía.
Durante su juventud, trabajó como profesora de inglés en Turín y Bilbao, y más tarde se dedicó al mundo editorial. En la década de 1990, comenzó a escribir su primera novela, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell, una obra de fantasía histórica que le tomó casi diez años completar.
Publicado en 2004, el libro se convirtió en un éxito internacional y recibió premios como el Premio Hugo y el Premio Mundial de Fantasía. En 2015, la BBC adaptó la novela en una miniserie.
Además de su obra más famosa, Clarke ha escrito la colección de relatos Las damas de Grace Adieu 2006 y la novela Piranesi 2020 , que ganó el Women's Prize for Fiction en 2021.
Su estilo literario se caracteriza por una combinación de magia, historia y realismo, con una profunda exploración de la psicología de sus personajes.
