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The Clothes On Their Backs
Linda Grant
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Description for The Clothes On Their Backs
Paperback. The brilliant new novel by Orange Prize winner, Linda Grant, about the legacies of history, longlisted for both the Orange Prize, 2008 and the Man Booker Prize, 2008 Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sándor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?
This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844085422
SKU
9781844085422
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Linda Grant
Linda Grant is author of four non-fiction books and eight novels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and Liverpool John Moores University. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the ... Read more
Reviews for The Clothes On Their Backs
'If you read only one novel this year, make sure it is The Clothes on Their Backs
SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A beautifully written and truly moving book about the experience of growing up in Britain as a second generation immigrant
EXPRESS
'It's a sublimely atmospheric and moving novel
LONDON PAPER
'This ... Read more