by Rachel Joyce · FISCHER Krüger · tapa dura · ISBN 9783810510792
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«Die unwahrscheinliche Pilgerreise des Harold Fry» is the novel by Rachel Joyce, published by Krüger Verlag in hardcover (378 pages, in German).
Harold Fry sets out to mail a letter to an old dying colleague and ends up turning the walk into a pilgrimage on foot. Over 87 days, the encounters and memories confront him with his marriage and his son; the journey transforms his life and his way of understanding hope.
The novel was published in 2012. First installment of the «Harold Fry» series. Translation from English by Maria Andreas; original title: «The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry».
For book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction, especially those who enjoy stories of walking journeys and characters revisiting their past.
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.
