Dignity

Zusatztext Deceptively simple... throughly engaging ... a timeless quality... I should like to recommend that the unpretentious prose of Pigeon be read primarily for its humaneness and subtle poetical spirit . Informationen zum Autor ALYS CONRAN 's first novel PIGEON (Parthian, 2016) won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2017, the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award and was shortlised for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Originally from North Wales, she spent several years in Edinburgh and Barcelona before returning to the area to live and write. She is now Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bangor and has been selected as the Hay Festival International Fellow for 2019-2020. Her late father, also a writer, was born in Kharagpur, Bengal. Klappentext A powerful novel about belonging, race, British India and contemporary Britain, by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Pigeon. Zusammenfassung A powerful novel about belonging, race, British India and contemporary Britain, by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Pigeon.

Product details

• Authors: Alys Conran, Conran Alys
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.04.2020
• EAN: 9781474609456
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0945-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, MEDICAL / Caregiving, India, MEDICAL / Home Care, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary