by Helen Macdonald · Büchergilde Gutenberg · tapa dura · ISBN 9783763268511
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«H wie Habicht» is Helen Macdonald's memoir, published by Büchergilde Gutenberg in hardcover (411 pages, in German).
After the sudden death of her father, Helen Macdonald recounts how she immersed herself in training a goshawk, a bird of prey difficult to tame. The book weaves her grief with the story of T. H. White, who also tried to raise a goshawk decades earlier, and reflects on wild nature, solitude, and resilience.
Translated from English by Ulrike Kretschmer. German edition published in 2015 by Büchergilde Gutenberg.
For nonfiction readers interested in grief, nature, and the figure of T. H. White, as well as falconry.
Helen Macdonald is an English writer and naturalist. They are best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award; in 2016, the book won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France.
