The Elements: from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author
The Elements: from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author
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John Boyne's acclaimed quartet of Water, Earth, Fire and Air come together at last.
Human life is governed by the elements - water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us.
In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction- a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim.
From a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives.
Boyne's most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.
- Publisher: DOUBLEDAY UK
- Dimensions: 15.3 x 3.7 x 23.3 cm
- Language: English
- Print length: 512 pages
- Item weight: 610 g
- Book Type: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 0857528882
- ISBN-13: 978-0857528889
- Publication date: 9 September 2025
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