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Informationen zum Autor John Lanchester has written five novels, The Debt to Pleasure , Mr Phillips , Fragrant Harbour , Capital and The Wall , and three works of non-fiction: Family Romance , a memoir; Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay , about the global financial crisis; and How to Speak Money , a primer in popular economics. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker . Klappentext A critical and commercial success, this family memoir from the award-winning author of "Fragrant Harbour" pieces together the author's past and uncovers the secrets of his family. Set against an exotic backdrop of Rhodesia, Ireland, Hong Kong and England, it is the true story of secrets through the ages and around the world. 'A distinguished addition to the field of non-sensationalist, non-miserablist, non-solipsist memoirs' Blake Morrison Family Romance , by John Lanchester, is an astonishing true story of family secrets stretching around the world and through three generations, by the bestselling author of Capital and Fragrant Harbour . Zusammenfassung In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion.
