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 (Ljudbok): 9781529019315
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 20 februari 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 (Ljudbok): 9781529019315
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 20 februari 2020
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Caroline
17 feb. 2021
A wonderful story, painful yet humorous too (in a similar way to Angela’s Ashes ) . My heart went out to Shuggie right away. The talented narrator added yet another dimension to the memorable characters with his beautiful Scottish voice. The best book I’ve read so far this year.
Maria
12 okt. 2021
I am glad I choose the English version read by Angus King with his Scottish accent, it lifted the story to a completely new level. It was almost as I stood there amongst them watching them come alive. Not often you get the chance to read a book out of a child’s perspective.
Camilla
26 juni 2021
Raw, relentless and strong. Written and red with a fantastic language and pronunciation.
Anton
22 mars 2021
Stark skildring av ett barns ovillkorliga kärlek till en alkoholiserad förälder i Thatchererans Glasgow. Underbar skotskklingande inläsning av Andy King.
Lina
15 okt. 2021
Amazing book and the narrator made it all come alive
Ulrika
11 juni 2023
Verklighetsskildring om att växa upp i utanförskap
Annica
17 okt. 2021
Så sorgligt men så bra. Lärorikt också. Ökad förståelse för de som föds in i fattigdom och missbruk.
Anna
11 okt. 2022
Fantastisk bok och fantastisk uppläsare!
Isa
31 mars 2021
En otroligt välgestaltad berättelse full av både misär, kärlek och humor. Jag är väldigt glad att jag lyssnade på Angus Kings inläsning vars klingande skotska gav liv åt karaktärerna och ytterligare en dimension till helhetsupplevelsen av boken. Shuggie Bain kommer att stanna med mig länge! ❤️
Jocke
19 juni 2021
Fantastisk!
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