Latecomers
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2010
Summary
The eighth novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac.
The latecomers are Hartmann and Fibich, brought over to England as children to escape Nazi Germany, now living close to each other in London in their 60s, and still friends. Yet they could not be more different, each having adopted different strategies to reconcile themselves with their past and to cope with an uncertain world.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141048291 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141048298 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner, Helen Dunmore |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Decades |
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Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding – Hilary Mantel Guardian Anita Brookner’s best novel so far – Victoria Glendinning She has never written a better novel … unbearably moving – Ruth Rendell It is hard to imagine her taut spare prose going out of fashion The Times
About The Author
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art till her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel in 1981, and her 25th in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize in 1984. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism. She lives in Chelsea, London.
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