John Lanchester

Broschiertes Buch

Family Romance

Beschreibung

In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion.

Autor

John Lanchester has written five novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips , Fragrant Harbour, Capital and The Wall, and three works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis; and How to Speak Money, a primer in popular economics. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780571234431
• ISBN-10: 0571234437
• Artikelnr.: 23358575