About this ebook
The brilliant, haunting new novel from the author of the award-winning Mister Pip.A quiet, mysterious, unnamed woman has come from Africa on an impassioned quest. From the shoreline of Tunisia to the confusion of Berlin, she relies on strangers some generous, some exploitive to guide her passage, encountering love and betrayal in its many guises along the way. When the truth behind this spellbinding story is finally revealed, we are forced to revisit everything that has gone before.Praise for Mister Pip'One of the best books of the year.Poetic, heartbreaking, surprising.'- ISABEL ALLENDE'Rarely can any novel have combined charm, horror and uplift in quite such superabundance.'- THE INDEPENDENT'A brilliant narrative performance.'- NEW ZEALAND LISTENER
About the author
Lloyd Jones has published essays and children's books but his best known works include the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wellington.
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