A01=Chris Cleave
Africa
Author_Chris Cleave
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Product details
- ISBN 9780340963425
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD
'A powerful piece of art'
Independent
'Exquisitely balanced between terrible sadness and brilliant humour'
Observer
'Immensely readable and moving'
New York Times
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.
Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:
It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific.
The story starts there, but the book doesn't.
And it's what happens afterwards that is most important.
Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
'Big themes, high emotion and cliffhangers aplenty . . . an enormously affecting investigation of love, guilt and global responsibility, told with a bittersweet urgency'
Guardian
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD
'A powerful piece of art'
Independent
'Exquisitely balanced between terrible sadness and brilliant humour'
Observer
'Immensely readable and moving'
New York Times
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.
Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:
It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific.
The story starts there, but the book doesn't.
And it's what happens afterwards that is most important.
Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
'Big themes, high emotion and cliffhangers aplenty . . . an enormously affecting investigation of love, guilt and global responsibility, told with a bittersweet urgency'
Guardian
Chris Cleave is a New York Times #1 bestselling novelist whose books are published in forty countries. His debut novel INCENDIARY won the Somerset Maugham Award, among others. His second, the Costa-shortlisted THE OTHER HAND, was a global bestseller and sat in the New York Times Top Ten for over a year (under the US title, Little Bee). Both books were shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. He lives in Kingston-upon-Thames with his wife and three children, and welcomes readers at facebook.com/ChrisCleaveBooks, www.chriscleave.com and twitter.com/chriscleave.
