Jane Gardam

Old Filth

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Produktbeschreibung

Filth is a lawyer with a practice in the Far East. A few remember that his nickname stands for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. But Old Filth is not as pompous as people imagine, and his past contains many secrets and dark hiding places.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Europa Editions
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781933372136
• ISBN-10: 1933372133
• Artikelnr.: 22070593

Autorenporträt

Jane Gardam has been twice awarded the Whitbread Prize and was also a Booker prize finalist. She is winner of the David Higham Prize, the Royal Society for Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and the Silver Pen Award from PEN. Her novels include God on the Rocks, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Old Filth, finalist for the Orange Prize; The Man in the Wooden Hat, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Last Friends, finalist for the Folio Award. She lives in the south of England near the sea. In 1999 Jane Gardam was awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in recognition of a distinguished literary career.

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Rezensionen

A magnificent, deeply moving and compassionate portrait of an era and a sentimental education Daily Mail