The Pages

The Pages
Hugo Hamilton
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NZ$ 32.99
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780008451707
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' A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley ' A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle ' A masterpiece' Sebastian Barry The new novel about the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another from the author of The Speckled People. Narrated in the voice of Joseph Roth' s masterpiece Rebellion, Hugo Hamilton' s stunning, formally inventive new novel tells the life story of that book, initially rescued from the Nazi book-burning in Berlin in May 1933. It recounts the life of its Austrian-Jewish author, a writer on the run, and his intriguing wife Friederike who fell victim to mental illness. And it tells a multitude of other stories: of Adreas Pum, a barrel-organ player down on his luck; of a young German American woman who finds a small map drawn by hand on its own blank page in the back, a thrilling mystery which will lead her to Berlin, the book' s birthplace. The Pages carries profound echoes from the past into the present day and is an inspiring story of the survival of literature over a hundred years.
Advance Praise for The Pages: ' Brilliant. It' s a lovely, rich, strange book, very truthful and moving, with a beautiful ending' Tessa Hadley ' A powerful, powerful piece of work. A wounded book making its own book. It brings so much to life - Joseph Roth, Chechnya, Germany, the art of writing, the whole notion of banning books, the lips of the past speaking to the present' Colum McCann ' A terrific, engrossing novel. I love the narrator - such a great character - and the structure is clever and carefully woven, and very satisfying' Roddy Doyle ' An ingenious conceit' John Banville ' A masterpiece. Full of great sentences. But also sort of obliteratingly moving, strange, and right' Sebastian Barry' Wonderful. It is as if Hugo Hamilton has invented a new form' Neil Jordan, author of Carnivalesque
Hugo Hamilton is the author of nine novels, two memoirs and a collection of short stories. His work has won a number of international awards, including the 1992 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2003 french Prix Femina Etranger, the 2004 Italian premio Giuseppe Berto and a DAAD scholarship in Berlin. He has also worked as a writer-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin. Hamilton was born and lives in Dublin.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780008451707
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 304

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