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Old Filth (50th Anniversary Edition)
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Taschenbuch von Jane Gardam
Sprache: Englisch

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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
FILTH, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong.

Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In doing so, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of the British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers.

'Beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny' The Times

'This novel is surely Gardam's masterpiece... On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read in years' Guardian

'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel
'Old Filth has stayed with me for years... I can't think of anyone who achieves so much with so few words' Sathnam Sanghera
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
FILTH, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong.

Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In doing so, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of the British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers.

'Beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny' The Times

'This novel is surely Gardam's masterpiece... On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read in years' Guardian

'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel
'Old Filth has stayed with me for years... I can't think of anyone who achieves so much with so few words' Sathnam Sanghera
Über den Autor
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349145266
ISBN-10: 0349145261
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardam, Jane
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 195 x 125 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Jane Gardam
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,23 kg
Artikel-ID: 121435902
Über den Autor
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349145266
ISBN-10: 0349145261
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardam, Jane
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 195 x 125 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Jane Gardam
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,23 kg
Artikel-ID: 121435902
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