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En bøn for Owen Meany

Owen Meany er navnet på en lille dreng fra provinsbyen Gravesend i New Hampshire. Han er i besiddelse af en skarp intelligens, stor autoritet og en bemærkelsesværdig skinger stemme. I en baseballkamp slår han som 11-årig en skæv bold, der rammer og dræber hans bedste vens mor. Men Owen Meany tror ikke på tilfældigheder, han mener, at han nu er Guds redskab. John Weelright er Owens bedste ven, og det er ham, der fortæller historien om de to drenges hjertegribende og groteske opvækst.

"Man ler, så tårerne triller ... vittigt, smukt og inderligt skrevet." – Jyllands Posten

John Irving er født i Exeter, New Hampshire, i 1942. Han debuterede med romanen "Slip bjørnene fri" i 1968 og brød igennem ti år senere med "Verden ifølge Garp", der blev en stor international succes. Flere af John Irvings romaner er filmatiserede.


Author:

  • John Irving

Narrator:

  • Poul Hüttel

Format:

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Duration:

  • 26 h 10 min
  • 637 pages

Language:

Danish

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction

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    John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.

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