Sparrow
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
$32.22
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
9 May 2023
Summary
‘Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest’ - Emma Donoghue ‘A novel of ancient times for our times.’ - Jim Crace
Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from trouble. His world is a kitchen, the herb-scented garden, then the loud and dangerous taver…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529092400 |
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| ISBN-10: | 152909240X |
| Author: | James Hynes |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 564g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 154mm x 233mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Utterly engrossing, vivid, and honest, this coming of age story reaches across millennia to grab us by the throat.’ – Emma Donoghue
An unnerving, exhilarating, unflinching portrayal of sex, slavery and sisterhood, takes the reader to one the most pitiless backstreets of the Roman Empire in its final years only to discover there - between the violence and the suffering, amid the Decline and the Fall - enduring tenderness and love. This is a novel of ancient times for our times. And it is splendid, a work of scorching distinction. – Jim Crace
James Hynes
James Hynes is the author of several books including Sparrow, Next, Kings of Infinite Space, The Lecturer’s Tale, Publish and Perish, and The Wild Colonial Boy. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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