Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021 Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty' – Observer
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.
Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.
Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize
© 2020 Picador (Lydbok): 9781529019315
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 20. februar 2020
Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021 Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty' – Observer
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.
Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.
Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize
© 2020 Picador (Lydbok): 9781529019315
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 20. februar 2020
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14. mai 2022
For en fantastisk bok. Den er rå, ærlig, hjerteskjærende. Den skaper bilder og følelser. Den får deg til å smile, og til å felle tårer. Antagelig en av de beste bøkene jeg har lest.
Bente
25. apr. 2022
Bra bok, levende lest av innleser med skotsk dialekt 👏 kan være litt vanskelig å følge alle detaljer pga den ekstreme dialekten, men det gir allikevel et "riktigere" bilde for meg at det blir lest med samme språk som der hvor historien er fra.
Vilde Lunnan
24. apr. 2022
En fantastisk, grusom historie om en gutt som blir en mann, og om den forvaklede mammaen som former ham, plager ham, elsker ham, og svikter ham. Den er akkurat det omtalen sier: en instant classic. Kommer til å bli hos meg lenge. Bonus: brilliant innlest med skotske, Glasgowske og Queen's English dialektiske nyanser inntakt.
Siren
25. nov. 2021
Vakker, levende og brutal skildring av oppvekst i Glasgow på 80- og 90-tallet.
Anitha
2. juli 2023
An amazing book from the first pages to the last , I cried and laughed , I doHope that someday it will be a film , such a knowledge of the times in the 80 s and the portraits of children and parents , just heartbreaking
Karianne
22. des. 2023
Veldig god🤩🤩Trist tema, og jeg må innrømme jeg ble litt sint innimellom. Hærlig innleser (skotsk)
Annette
8. nov. 2021
Utrolig dyktig innleser, veldig god bok.
Malgorzata
12. mai 2021
Just dive in. You won't want it to end.
Cristel
4. nov. 2022
A very sad story with a very realistic impression of a time not long ago. Local language and little nuggets of humor makes the book a good read about people at their worst and best.
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