Irfan Master

A Beautiful Lie (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An extraordinarily rich debut novel, set in India at the time of Partition. Although the backdrop is this key event in Indian history, the novel is even more far-reaching, touching on the importance of tolerance, love and family. The central plot focuses on Bilau, a boy who is determined to protect his dying father from the realities of the unrest and upheaval on the eve of Partition - the riots, the bloodshed, the aggression. With great spirit and determination, Bilau persuades the whole of his village to collude with him in this deception, even going to the lengths of printing false pages of the newspaper to hide the ravages of unrest from his father, thus allowing his father to die at peace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408812013
• Artikelnr.: 38282915

Autorenporträt

This is Irfan Master's first novel and has been shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Irfan is project manager of Reading the Game at the National Literacy Trust. His family is from Gujarat, where the novel is set. Irfan lives in London, SE5.

Rezensionen

'Another memorable debut novel . . . Beautifully told this debut is set in 1940's India at the time of the Partition, with themes of tolerance that still resonate today' The Bookseller