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Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781408833186
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By (author): Rupert Thomson

One of David Bowie's 100 Must-Read Books of All Time

It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. One spring evening, while Martin is practising in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens ...

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Weight: 332g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 30 Aug 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: GB
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408833186

About Rupert Thomson

RUPERT THOMSON is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, of which Air and Fire and The Insult were shortlisted for the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize respectively. His most recent novel, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party's Got to Stop was published in 2009.