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14%OFFMichel Laub - Diary of the Fall - 9780099581796 - V9780099581796
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Diary of the Fall

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Description for Diary of the Fall Paperback. A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 162.

‘I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out ... but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed’

A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons.

Diary of the Fall is the story of three generations: a man examining the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099581796
SKU
V9780099581796
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About Michel Laub
Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre and currently lives in Sao Paulo. He is a writer and journalist, and was named one of Granta's twenty 'Best of Young Brazilian Novelists'. Diary of the Fall, which received the Brasilia Award, was his first novel to appear in English. It won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for ... Read more

Reviews for Diary of the Fall
Extraordinary... In my world, this novel is already a classic
Karl Ove Knausgaard A powerful exploration of memory and guilt
Guardian
A work of immense incantatory power
Neel Mukherjee
Literary Review
Astonishingly powerful ... Diary of a Fall may well emerge as one of the finest novels published in English this year
Eileen ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Diary of the Fall


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