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Peace Talks

di Tim Finch

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book Awards

A small masterpiece of compression and containment, Peace Talks tells the story of one man's grief, the tribulations of the human heart, and our longing for peace.

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 has 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 oneâ??no one but his wife Anna. Anna, whom he loves with all his heart; Anna, always present and yet forever absent.

Reminiscent of Robert Seethaler's work in its formal elegance and emotional heft, of Rachel Cusk's novels in the precision and tenacity of its prose, and of David Szalay's writing in its abiding preoccupations, Finch's new novel is a work of great depth, honesty, wit, beauty, and enduring importance.… (altro)

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Edvard Behrens - erfahrener Diplomat, Liebhaber von Kunst und Latein-affin - leitet in einem Nobelhotel in den Schweizer Bergen die titelgebenden Friedensverhandlungen zwischen zwei Delegationen eines Landes aus dem Nahen Osten. Zudem muss er einen inneren Frieden schließen; sein "Kampfschauplatz" ist der Verlust/Tod seiner Frau Anna, an die er seine Tagebucheintragungen richtet. Beide Entwicklungsprozesse werden parallelisiert; Einblicke in die politischen Verhandlungen wechseln sich mit persönlichen Innensichten ab. So stehen letztendlich Berichte von Massakern individueller persönlicher Trauer gegenüber - an einem weltentrückten, surreal edlen Schauplatz. Teilweise etwas manieriert, mit reichlich intertextuellen Bezügen. Der britische Autor war auch schon Journalist, Pressesprecher und Lobbyist. Die in- und ausländische Kritik ist sich bei der Bewertung nicht ganz einig: für manche eine bewegende Studie über Liebe und Elend, für andere ein überflüssiger, geschwätziger Text. Auf jeden Fall sollten sich Leser*innen selber ein Urteil bilden dürfen - überall möglich und grundsätzlich empfohlen ( )
  Cornelia16 | Jan 5, 2023 |
The Chairman of international peace talks talks to himself to try to find peace following the violent death of his wife. A disappointing self indulgent story of a rich, middle class bureaucrat wallowing in self pity. ( )
  Steve38 | Jun 27, 2022 |
Edvard Behrends is a Norwegian-British diplomat leading a group to resolve a conficit between two unnamed Arabic-speaking factions, sequestered at a resort high in the Tyrolian Alps of Austria. The 171 page novel is told in Edvard's internal monologue to his wife. How he got to this place in life is told in bits, and details are gradually revealed. Peace Talks is both sad and humorous, full of subtle, beautiful passages that tell a story of loss and grief.

This doesn't sound like the kind of novel I'd hurry to pick up, but the Austrian Alpine setting drew me in, and the back story of the peace negotiations was unique and interesting.

Peace Talks is one of four books shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Award.

Recommended for: In this case it's easier to say who this book isn't for: people who want a strongly defined plot; readers who don't want to read yet another book about the thoughts of an older middle aged white man; readers who don't care for books that refer to other books and art; and readers who don't like books set in a privileged European world. ( )
1 vota Nickelini | Feb 7, 2021 |
Peace Talks from Tim Finch sneaks up and the reader then never leaves. I finished this book about a week ago and have been thinking about it quite a bit since then, which for me is a good sign.

I hesitate to call the beginning slow because I think it needs to be at a certain methodical pace to be effective so I will say that from the start you settle in for a very steady process. And this story is a process, of grief, of negotiation, of the range of human emotions one goes through when life hits you harder than you expected.

The details come out almost casually, periodically throughout the narrative. Yet as each reveal is made it is like a heart punch, it takes a few minutes to recover, or at least to renegotiate your own reading of the story, which is also a reading of the man.

I highly recommend this to readers who like a novel that seems on the surface to be so simple yet speaks to life both private and public, issues both personal and political, and the dynamics between all of it.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. ( )
1 vota pomo58 | Aug 28, 2020 |
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A lucid work carefully balanced between the terrors and consolations that fiction can provide.
aggiunto da Nickelini | modificaKirkus Reviews (Jul 14, 2020)
 
For little happening is partly the point. The game and its rules, both spoken and unspoken, are a thin screen. Behind it is the higher-stakes game of feelings, unspoken because it is so hard to name them, or to face them, to make accommodations for or even understand them. Peace Talks turns out to be 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.
aggiunto da Nickelini | modificaThe Guardian, Aida Edemariam (May 23, 2020)
 

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book Awards

A small masterpiece of compression and containment, Peace Talks tells the story of one man's grief, the tribulations of the human heart, and our longing for peace.

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 has 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 oneâ??no one but his wife Anna. Anna, whom he loves with all his heart; Anna, always present and yet forever absent.

Reminiscent of Robert Seethaler's work in its formal elegance and emotional heft, of Rachel Cusk's novels in the precision and tenacity of its prose, and of David Szalay's writing in its abiding preoccupations, Finch's new novel is a work of great depth, honesty, wit, beauty, and enduring importance.

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