The Mission House

From the prize-winning author of West, a collision between old and new, east and west, in a former British hill station in contemporary South India.

About the author

Carys Davies's first novel West (Granta, 2018) won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction award, was Runner-Up for the Society of Author's McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her short stories have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. They have won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Award, the Royal Society of Literature's V S Pritchett Prize, and a Northern Writers' Award, and her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2015.

Product details

• Authors: Carys Davies
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2020
• EAN: 9781783784301
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-430-1
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Indien, FICTION / Literary, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Indien / Roman, Erzählung