The Clothes On Their Backs

ISBN-13: 9781844085422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

Linda Grant

Opis

Vivien spends a quiet childhood encapsulated in the present, sealed off from the past by her timid refugee parents. To the horror of her father, her glamorous, dangerous uncle appears at their door, dressed in a purple mohair suit with his leopard-print clad mistress. Why is he so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?

Recenzje

** 'If you read only one novel this year, make sure it is The Clothes on Their Backs SUNDAY EXPRESS

O autorze

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 Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award; The Dark Circle was shortlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction; A Stranger City won the 2000 Wingate Literary Prize. Linda Grant lives in London.