by Evie Wyld · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099535836
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«After the Fire, A Still Small Voice» is the literary fiction novel by Evie Wyld, published by Vintage in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Frank takes refuge in the family cabin on the Australian coast to escape his past and finds a community hit by the disappearance of a young woman. Decades earlier, Leon tries to keep the family bakery going and ends up drafted into the Vietnam War. Two stories linked by the legacy of trauma and the search for redemption.
Evie Wyld's debut novel, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2009) and the Betty Trask Award (2010), and finalist for the Orange Prize (2010) and the Dublin Literary Award (2011).
Will appeal to readers of contemporary literary fiction, especially those looking for novels set in Australia about family memory and twentieth-century wars.
Evelyn Rose Strange "Evie" Wyld is an English author. Several of her novels are set in Australia, where she spent holidays with her grandparents as a child, and she has won several Australian literary awards. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2009, and her second novel, All the Birds, Singing, won the Encore Award in 2013 and the Miles Franklin Award in 2014. Her third novel, The Bass Rock, won the Stella Prize in 2021.
