Scenes from Early Life

Hensher, Philip

ISBN 10: 0007513720 ISBN 13: 9780007513727

Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2012

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Críticas:

‘Beautifully packed with detail ... does for Bangladesh what Salmon Rushdie did for India with Midnight’s Children ... It is a remarkable re-creation of a land that most of us know little about’ Sunday Times

‘This is his most purely pleasurable novel to date’ Daily Mail

‘Highly impressive ... for all Hensher's accomplished ventriloquism – his ability to inhabit the voice of a Muslim child and a history teacher at the same time – his own voice is not lost ... heart-breaking’ Guardian

‘A deeply interesting book ... The joins are seamless ... It is inventive, clever and loving; a Booker candidate, I would have thought.’ Spectator

‘...this delightful book shows for the first time what Hensher has largely concealed in the past: his heart’ Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday

Reseña del editor:

The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency.

“I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the war alive.”

One family’s life, and a nation – Bangladesh – are uniquely created through conversation, sacrifice, songs, bonds, blood, bravery and jokes. Narrated by a young boy born into a savage civil war, ‘Scenes from Early Life’ is a heartbreaking, funny and gripping novel by one of our finest writers.

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• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007513720
• ISBN 13: 9780007513727
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320