by Rachel Joyce · Cargo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023476061
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«De onwaarschijnlijke reis van Harold Fry» is the contemporary novel by Rachel Joyce, published by Cargo in paperback (318 pages, in Dutch).
Harold Fry, recently retired, goes out to mail a letter and ends up walking over eight hundred miles to Berwick-upon-Tweed to save an old colleague ill with cancer. Along the way he talks with strangers who tell him their lives, while his wife tries to understand his departure: the distance brings them closer.
First installment of the Harold Fry series; originally in English, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, translated into Dutch by Janneke Zwart.
A novel for readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs interested in initiatory journeys, friendship and hope.
Rachel Joyce is a British writer. She has written plays for BBC Radio 4, and jointly won the 2007 Tinniswood Award for her radio play To Be a Pilgrim. Her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was on the longlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and in December 2012 she was awarded the "New Writer of the Year" award by the National Book Awards for this book.
