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Zusatztext This ambitious debut novel has an unforgettable narrator in Shruti Informationen zum Autor Gabriel is the Associate Director of the Creative Writing MFA Programme at Hunter College, and has previously given seminars at Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth and Wellesley. He writes a monthly 'Writers on Writing' column for The Writer magazine, and his journalism has appeared in more than 100 publications worldwide, including New York Magazine, The Village Voice and Poets & Writers. He has a BA in English from Oxford University and an MFA in fiction writing from Hunter College. He has also worked as a researcher for the novelists E.L. Doctorow, Peter Carey and worked with Jonathan Franzen on the novel he is currently completing. Klappentext Eleven-year-old Shruti's troubled home life begins to improve when she meets Meena, a new arrival at her school. Desperate for companionship, Shruti latches on to Meena to the point of obsession. But when the girls decide to go on holiday to India, she has no idea how dangerous her obsession will turn out to be . . . 'A debut unlike any other. Told by the ill-fated but indomitable Shruti, whose lively, contemporary voice masks great pain, the novel ranges from her bitter childhood in southern England to her extraordinary imprisonment on a desert island. An unsettling and unforgettable book' Claire Messud , author of The Emperor's Children 'The sort of book the whole world is hungry for: a thrilling and literate debut, a smart page-turner that takes your emotions and wraps them around its brutal, quick fist' Darin Strauss, author of Half A Life 'This ambitious debut novel has an unforgettable narrator in Shruti' Red magazine Brick Lane meets Lord of the Flies: an ambitious page-turner and a true literary achievement. Zusammenfassung Brick Lane meets Lord of the Flies: an ambitious page-turner and a true literary achievement....
