Peace Talks Synopsis
'A moving and direct study of frailty, love and time and luck and grief' Guardian
Edvard Behrends is a diplomat, highly regarded for his work on international peace negotiations. Under his arbitration, unimaginable atrocities are coolly dissected; invisible lines, grown taut and frayed with conflict, redrawn.
In his latest post, Edvard has been sent to a nondescript hotel in the Tyrol. High up on this mountain, the air is bright and clear.
He confides in no one - no one but his wife Anna. Anna, who he loves with all his heart; Anna, always present and yet forever absent.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781526611680 |
| Publication date: |
1st April 2021 |
| Author: |
Tim Finch |
| Publisher: |
Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
213 pages |
| Primary Genre |
General Fiction
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Tim Finch Press Reviews
A shrewd delight - independent.co.uk
A profound novel about human frailty ... In its tone and minor-key approach, Peace Talks is reminiscent of the Julian Barnes of Levels of Life, plus lashings of (duly credited) James Salter ... Peace Talks turns out to be a moving and direct study of frailty , love and time, and luck and grief , of what is left when all the noise - of machination, violence and competing stories - is stripped away - Guardian
A tender and elegant portrait of a grieving individual searching for personal and political peace - Sunday Times
A feat of telling ... Masterfully rendered - Spectator
As well as shining a light on the conflict resolution industry, Finch plays a canny game with our assumptions about the motives behind Anna's murder, in a smart tale slyly engineered to warn against the perils of nationalist tub-thumping - Daily Mail
Tim Finch's elegant and wintry novel has something of the feel of early Kazuo Ishiguro, and a similar acute grasp of both character and situation ... In Behrends, Finch has created a narrator both open and opaque - Observer
