The Last Brother
$30.93
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2011
Summary
Raj is oblivious to the Second World War being fought beyond his tiny exotic island. His mother is his sole company while his father works as a prison guard, so the boy thinks only of making friends.
One day, from the far-away world, a ship brings to the island Jewish exiles who have been refused entry to Israel. David, a recently orphaned boy of his own age from Prague, becomes the friend that he has longed for, and Raj takes it upon himself to help David to escape from the prison. A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849164016 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849164010 |
| Author: | Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 14mm |
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The rich implications of history … that lie behind its comparatively simple story would have won the admiration of Margeurite Yourcenar’ Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement.
‘Sophisticated, confident and beautifully poetic writing that’s tender and poignant and consistently captivating … a remarkable and precise portrait of a childhood that both convinces and moves’ Daniel Hahn, Bookseller. * Bookseller *‘A lushly beautiful child’s-eye tale’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent. * Independent *‘The rich implications of history … that lie behind its comparatively simple story would have won the admiration of Margeurite Yourcenar’ Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement. * Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Appanah was born in Mauritius in 1973. She was brought up there and worked as a journalist before moving to France in 1998. The Last Brother, her first novel to be translated into English, was awarded the FNAC Fiction Prize in 2007 in its French edition. Her novel Tropic of Violence was winner of the Prix Femina des Lyceens in 2016, as well as seven other French literary awards.
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