ISBN: 1862073988

[SR: 4829802], Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9781862073982], Granta Books, Granta Books, Book, [PU: Granta Books], Granta Books, In his latest venture into richly eclectic prose fantasy, Ulste… Mehr…

[SR: 4829802], Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9781862073982], Granta Books, Granta Books, Book, [PU: Granta Books], Granta Books, In his latest venture into richly eclectic prose fantasy, Ulster poet Ciaran Carson figures that if Shamrock Tea (a herbal remedy which when imbibed cleanses the windows of perception and can aid flying and time travelling) were to infiltrate the waters of a Belfast reservoir, peace would prevail. But the stores of Shamrock Tea have been depleted and the young narrator of Carson's book must drink a brew and travel back to 15th-century Bruges and into the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck to hunt for its source. Reading like Harry Potter for intellectuals, the unusual Shamrock Tea is both mystifying and spectacular by turns. Carson begins fairly typically enough with childhood and a boy remembering the chalky taste of the wallpaper in his bedroom. He then muses, like every poet, on the names in his paint-box: Burnt Sienna, Prussian Blue and Hooker's Green. But where another writer might end up on the streets of Manhattan, Carson traces Vermilion to dead worms and Hooker's Green to two frog-skinned children who appeared at the house of Arnolfini in Bruges and then to the robes worn by the female figure in the van Eyck painting. Each short chapter is named after a colour or pun on a colour--"Dorian Gray"--and is linked to the previous one like beads on a string, sparkling, but separate: All life is a great chain, the nature of which is known when we are shown a single link of it. In many ways Shamrock Tea is about how the sheer elasticity of imaginative verve works, making it astounding, funny and quite mad. Cherry Smyth, 419914031, Gegenwartsliteratur, 117, Literatur & Fiktion, 541686, Kategorien, 186606, Bücher, 14166906031, Metaphysik & Esoterik, 14166873031, Unterhaltungsliteratur, 117, Literatur & Fiktion, 541686, Kategorien, 186606, Bücher, 14167012031, Literatur, 117, Literatur & Fiktion, 541686, Kategorien, 186606, Bücher, 273043011, Metaphysisch, 67216011, Populäre Belletristik, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 67215011, Literarisch, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

ISBN: 1862073988

Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintin… Mehr…

Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintings; they can cross time. The narrator, his cousin and a strange Belgian friend know that their lives are ruled mysteriously by the great van Eyck painting, The Arnolfini Portrait, and they have travelled in dream like moments through the painting into other times. They discover that each moment is connected to every other. But in the strange world of Shamrock Tea, no story can be straightforward. With a cast of characters that includes the gardener Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book will blow your mind. anthologies,contemporary,fantasy,genre fiction,literary,literature and fiction,magic and wizards,metaphysical,science fiction and fantasy,short stories Fantasy, Harvard Business Review Press<

ISBN: 9781862073982

Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintin… Mehr…

Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintings; they can cross time. The narrator, his cousin and a strange Belgian friend know that their lives are ruled mysteriously by the great van Eyck painting, The Arnolfini Portrait, and they have travelled in dream like moments through the painting into other times. They discover that each moment is connected to every other. But in the strange world of Shamrock Tea, no story can be straightforward. With a cast of characters that includes the gardener Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book will blow your mind.; Contemporary, Granta Books<

ISBN: 9781862073982

Shamrock tea, the magical substance that allows people to experience the world with visionary clarity, can only be found by passing through the famous van Eyck painting The Arnolfini Marr… Mehr…

Shamrock tea, the magical substance that allows people to experience the world with visionary clarity, can only be found by passing through the famous van Eyck painting The Arnolfini Marriage. The characters who bear this knowledge include a young boy named Carson, his uncle Celestine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the nephew of a famous Belgian writer. Vividly colorful, Shamrock Tea invites readers to enter another world. Media > Book, [PU: Granta]<