Who Killed Piet Barol?

@2@@20@A Book of the Year - @18@The Times@19@@21@@16@@20@A Book of the Year - @18@ Observer @19@@21@@16@@20@A Book of the Year - @18@Mail on Sunday@19@@21@@3@@2@Avoiding the chaos of the First World War, Piet Barol leaves the bustle of civilization and heads into Africa's greatest forest. With a business to build and secrets to escape, his only weapons are courage and intuition. His African guides have their own reasons for taking him to their ancestral lands. What he finds there changes him forever, and unleashes a chain of events he can neither predict nor control... @3@@2@This "gorgeous treat of a novel" (@18@The Times, Book of the Month@19@) is a funny, sexy, irreverent, and intensely moving portrait of what unites human beings when their sacred mysteries are blown apart.@3@

A propos de l'auteur

Richard Mason was born in South Africa in 1978 to activist parents who settled in England when he was ten. Brought up and educated in Britain he wrote his first novel, THE DROWNING PEOPLE, before going to Oxford. In the intervening years, Richard finished his degree, then set up an educational charity in memory of his sister Kay. The Kay Mason Foundation provides scholarships to disadvantaged South African children, paying for them to attend some of the country's best schools.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Richard Mason, Mason Richard
• Edition: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781474602358
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0235-8
• Pages: 369
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Modern & contemporary fiction