Description
Edvard Behrends is a highly regarded senior diplomat who has made his reputation as a mediator in international peace negotiations. In his latest post, he’s been sent to a resort hotel in the Tyrol. High up on this mountain, the air is bright and clear. When he isn’t working, Edvard reads, walks, listens to music. He confides in no one—no one but his wife, Anna. Anna, whom he loves with all his heart; Anna, always present and yet forever absent. And as he does the delicate work of keeping humankind’s darker instincts in check with patience and carefully chosen words, he tries also to find his own equilibrium in this “intimate account of what it means to make peace, both with others and with oneself” (Colum McCann).
“A quietly intense novel of sudden grief and its aftermath.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Finch’s elegant and wintry novel has something of the feel of early Kazuo Ishiguro, and a similar acute grasp of both character and situation, aided by the author’s background in refugee and migrant charities.” —The Observer
“A tender and elegant portrait of a grieving individual searching for personal and political peace.” —The Times
Product Details
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Publish Date | October 06, 2020 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Digital (delivered electronically) |
| EAN/UPC | 9781609456320 |
About the Author
Tim Finch is a leading campaigner and writer on refugee and migrant issues. He formerly worked as a director for the Refugee Council, and has founded two charities, among them Sponsor Refugees. As well as working as a senior political journalist at the BBC, he has broadcast frequently on Channel 4, Al Jazeera and CNN. He is the author of two novels, The House of Journalists (FSG, 2013), and Peace Talks (Europa, 2020).
Reviews
Praise for Peace Talks
“Laced with humor and sadness, this is an intimate account of what it means to make peace, both with others and with oneself.”—Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
“A lucid work carefully balanced between the terrors and consolations that fiction can provide.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A moving and direct study of frailty, love and time, and luck and grief, of what is left when all the noise – of machination, violence and competing stories – is stripped away.”—Aida Edemariam, The Guardian
“What we are reading in Edvard’s personal peace talk are the words that fill his own silence...Peace Talks is a feat of telling this nothing, of articulating the mundanity and penetrating the emptiness of grief.”—Emily Rhodes, The Spectator
“Insightful, emotionally resonant and unexpectedly poetic.”—The Big Issue
“[Peace Talks] offers a tender and elegant portrait of a grieving individual searching for personal and political peace.”—The Times
“Tim Finch’s elegant and wintry novel has something of the feel of early Kazuo Ishiguro, and a similar acute grasp of both character and situation, aided by the author’s background in refugee and migrant charities.”—The Observer
“A smart tale slyly engineered to warn against the perils of nationalist tub-thumping.”—The Daily Mail
Praise for The House of the Journalists
“An ambitious, black-hued satire . . . Lingers in the imagination.”—Olivia Laing, New Statesman
“Evocative and clever.”—TheNew York Times
“A strange but oddly effective mixture of often-light comedy and often-brutal reportage from the front line against tyranny.”—Harry Ritchie, The Daily Mail
“Savagely funny.”—Metro
“An astonishingly good book.”—Emerald Street
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