Blood Kin - Softcover

Dovey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843546582 ISBN 13: 9781843546580

Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize

A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in a palatial retreat in the mountains high above the capital city. Far below them, chaos tears through the streets. The chef's daughter, the portraitist's wife and the barber's lover watch their men from the shadows. In such precarious times, intimate relationships are as dangerous as political ones. As the old order falls, so does the veil that hides the truth about these men and women's secret passions. Drawing her readers masterfully towards the novel's devastating climax, Ceridwen Dovey reveals how humanity's most atavistic impulses - vanity, vengeance and greed - seethe, relentlessly, just beneath the veneer of civility.

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Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel, Blood Kin, was published in fifteen countries, shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and selected for the U.S. National Book Foundation's prestigious 5 Under 35 honours list. She studied social anthropology at Harvard and New York University, and now lives with her husband and son in Sydney.Only the Animals won the 2014 Readings New Australian Writing Award. Her website is www.ceridwendovey.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1843546582
• ISBN 13: 9781843546580
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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