" P]robably the most distinguished writer of English prose in the novel form at present living. He cannot do other than write beautifully." - Humbert Wolfe "The book abounds in glowing experiences of a world of colour and sensation, minutely imagined. . . . The description of dawn at Kew Gardens is so lovely that the reader will be tempted to endanger his respectability by emulating Judy and climbing the wall." - Times Literary Supplement "Among the few highly important and significant novelists of the day." - The Observer "There is poetry beneath Mr. Fraser's...
" P]robably the most distinguished writer of English prose in the novel form at present living. He cannot do other than write beautifully." - Humbert ...
A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain " He turned his back on the old man to mourn in silence this unnecessary death and his part in it; but the sight of the coffin brought anger instead ... " In 1957, a burned-out British journalist leaves London to recuperate in the idyllic Andalusian village of Benalamar, a place little changed since the tumult of Spain s civil war. But when a foreign businessman arrives with plans to develop the area, the community is thrown into turmoil. During a time of drought, the...
A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain " He turned his back on the old man to ...