by Owen Sheers · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571239061
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«Resistance» is the alternative history novel by Owen Sheers, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In an alternative 1944, the USSR has fallen and the Normandy landings have failed. Sarah Lewis discovers that her husband and all the men of her Welsh village have disappeared. A German patrol arrives in the valley; its officer, Albrecht, strikes up a hesitant relationship with Sarah and reveals that they are searching for a hidden medieval artistic treasure.
It is Owen Sheers's first novel; he is a poet and prose writer born in Fiji in 1974 and raised in Abergavenny, South Wales.
For readers of historical fiction and Second World War alternate histories, and for reading groups interested in war narrative.
Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer-in-residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team.
