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Munichs
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781324086260
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young group of star players nicknamed the Busby Babes after their charismatic manager Matt Busby. But on a snowy afternoon that February, a plane carrying the team back from a European Cup match crashed on takeoff in Munich, killing 23 people--including eight Manchester United players and three team officials. The accident destroyed the team, traumatized fans all over the world, and devastated the tight-knit community in Manchester.
In this hypnotic and deeply moving novel, renowned novelist David Peace reimagines the crash and its aftermath, dramatizing the deep scars it left on British society. Moving between the fictionalized voices of survivors, including players, their family members, and Busby himself, Munichs powerfully interprets the struggles of a team, a city, and a nation to recover and rise again.
Peace has been hailed as brilliant by Kazuo Ishiguro and his novels have been lauded as incantatory (Los Angeles Times), ambitious and heartbreaking (NPR), and the stuff of great literature (New York Times Book Review). With Munichs, he has crafted another extraordinary novel, one that intimately explores the reverberations of trauma and the power of community in the wake of tragedy.
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