Emergency

Name: Emergency
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781913097813
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By Daisy Hildyard

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Summary

Emergency is a thought-provoking novel that interlaces themes of environmental consciousness and human interconnectedness. Set against the backdrop of contemporary crises, it delves into the profound impact of individual actions on the natural world. Daisy Hildyard crafts a narrative that explores the intricate bonds between humans and their environment, offering a reflective meditation on modern life.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy narratives that weave together complex themes of identity, ecology, and humanity's impact on the world. It explores connections between personal experiences and the broader environmental crisis, offering an insightful look at human nature and our place in the planet's ecosystem.

Emergency

A story of remote violence and a work of praise for a persistently lively world, brilliantly written, surprising, evocative and unsettling, Daisy Hildyard's Emergency reinvents the pastoral novel for the climate change era.

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Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, a woman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a kestrel hunting, helps a farmer with a renegade bull, and plays out with her best friend, Clare.

Around her in the village, her neighbours are arguing, keeping secrets, caring for one another, trying to hold down jobs. In the woods and quarry, there are fox cubs fighting, plants competing for space, ageing machines, and a three-legged deer who likes cake. These local phenomena interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power.

'Its prose is bewitching and uncompromising, alive to the enmeshing of cruelty with care that articulates our shared - human and nonhuman - existence.' - Daisy Lafarge, author of Paul

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Emergency by Daisy Hildyard has been praised for its rich, unflinching approach to exploring the interconnectedness of our world in a time of crisis. Reviewers commend its blend of sensual, sometimes nightmarish imagery that brings to light the conflict and splendor of a world intertwined. The novel's prose is described as both bewitching and challenging, capturing the enmeshment of cruelty with care, while painting a vivid tapestry that collapses past, present, nature, and industry into a unified consciousness.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781913097813

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 April 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

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Daisy Hildyard Education & Reference Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Daisy Hildyard holds a PhD in the history of science, and has previously published essays on the language of science, and on seventeenth-century mathematics. Her first novel, Hunters in the Snow, received the Somerset Maugham Award and a '5 under 35' honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. Her essay The Second Body, a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017. She lives with her family in North Yorkshire, where she was born