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Orphans of the Carnival
Carol Birch
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Description for Orphans of the Carnival
hardcover. The dazzling new novel, evoking the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 222 x 36. Weight in Grams: 518. Lacking dust jacket. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico, heralded on tours across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her rather unusual appearance. Yet few can see past the thick hair that covers her: she is both the fascinating toast of a Governor's ball and the shunned, revolting, unnatural beast, to be hidden from children and pregnant women. But what is her wonderful and terrible link to Rose, collector of lost treasures in an attic room in present-day South London? In this haunting tale of identity, love and independence, these two lives connect in unforgettable ways.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116547
SKU
KMO0001500
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Carol Birch
Carol Birch is the author of eleven previous novels, including Scapegallows (2008), Turn Again Home (2003), which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Jamrach's Menagerie, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the London Book Award. She has also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the David Higham Award for Best First Novel.
Reviews for Orphans of the Carnival
Strange and beautiful . . . Captures the lost world of carnivals and smoky backstreet theatres with hallucinatory vividness
The Times
Tender and shocking . . . [Julia] has an intrepid taste for adventure and a stoical endurance of adversity
Guardian
Fascinating . . . Completely grips the emotions as it moves towards its heartbreaking end
Daily Mail
Orphans of the Carnival is a rich and wonderful book. Carol Birch can see a world in a grain of sand - and then furnish it for you, vividly and unforgettably.
M.R. CAREY, author of The Girl With All the Gifts In this dazzling novel Carol Birch paints an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary woman. Orphans of the Carnival encourages us to wonder what is revealed by the way a society treats those people who are unusual, who look different or who have their own unique view of the world.
CATHERINE CHANTER, author of The Well Praise for Jamrach's Menagerie: 'An imaginative tour-de-force encompassing the sights and smells of 19th-century London and the wild sea . . . Gripping, superbly written and a delight
The Times
Riveting. Birch is masterful at evoking period and place . . . A teeming exhibition of the beautiful and the bizarre
Sunday Times
One of the best stories I've ever read . . . A completely original book
A. S. Byatt
The Times
Tender and shocking . . . [Julia] has an intrepid taste for adventure and a stoical endurance of adversity
Guardian
Fascinating . . . Completely grips the emotions as it moves towards its heartbreaking end
Daily Mail
Orphans of the Carnival is a rich and wonderful book. Carol Birch can see a world in a grain of sand - and then furnish it for you, vividly and unforgettably.
M.R. CAREY, author of The Girl With All the Gifts In this dazzling novel Carol Birch paints an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary woman. Orphans of the Carnival encourages us to wonder what is revealed by the way a society treats those people who are unusual, who look different or who have their own unique view of the world.
CATHERINE CHANTER, author of The Well Praise for Jamrach's Menagerie: 'An imaginative tour-de-force encompassing the sights and smells of 19th-century London and the wild sea . . . Gripping, superbly written and a delight
The Times
Riveting. Birch is masterful at evoking period and place . . . A teeming exhibition of the beautiful and the bizarre
Sunday Times
One of the best stories I've ever read . . . A completely original book
A. S. Byatt