Hand Me Down World
$23.99
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2011
Summary
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers—some generous, some exploiting—to guide her passage north.
These strangers tell of their encounters with a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat—each account a different view of the truth, a different truth. And slowly these fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921758799 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921758791 |
| Author: | Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
‘… a compelling narrative and an absorbing (and sometimes uncomfortable) disquisition on relative morality and justice.’ * Financial Times *
‘This novel is remarkable on every level…It is a piece of narrative brilliance in its construction. And is compelling in a new, quiet and beguiling way. Jones was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his previous novel, Mister Pip, and he is sure to win fans and accolades for this one.’ * Sunday Tasmanian *
‘Lloyd Jones has plotted a fine and moving story with enormous compassion, emotional depth and tender insight into humanity.’ * Sunday Telegraph *
‘It would be difficult to think of another novelist quite as original or fearless as 55-year-old New Zealand author Lloyd jones. A writer of truly international sensibility … Lloyd Jones’s novel is freshly minted, unsettling and unsentimental.’ * The Monthly *
‘New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones is a master storyteller …’ * Weekend Australian *
‘Lloyd Jones’s Hand Me Down World is a rich and subtle exploration of a refugee experience; it asks great questions about the nature of both longing and belonging.’ – Michael McGirr * Age *
‘Jones is a daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today.’ * Guardian UK *
‘superbly disconcerting…[a] masterful, prismatic piece of storytelling.’ * Independent UK *
About The Author
Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand’s best known contemporary writers. He has published essays and children’s books but his best known works include the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife, Hand Me Down World and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers’ Prize. Mister Pip was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. He lives in the Wairarapa.
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