Savour it: you'll regret it if you don't.

Sydney Morning Herald

Glittering... Accomplished

- Joanna Briscoe, Guardian

Masterful; the language is direct and arresting; the story is engaging to the end. It's both a very human story and a novel of ideas, and it's challenging on both levels.

Globe and Mail

Se alle

An intelligent, emotional read.

Eve

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008Winner of the Prix Femina 2006Narrated by four children from different generations of the same family, Fault Lines is a tale of a present haunted by the past. Moving from California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, its stories unwind back through the years until, reaching the Second World War, the devastating secret at the heart of the family's history is finally revealed.Domestic in focus and epic in scope, Fault Lines is a poignant and captivating piece of storytelling, revealing what can happen when past and present collide...
Les mer
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008, and winner of the Prix Femina 2006.No child can know the secrets of the past...
Nancy Huston is a brilliant, lyrical, unforgettable writer.' Janette Turner HospitalNarrated by four children from different generations of the same family, Fault Lines is a tale of a present haunted by the past. Taking us from California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, its stories unwind back through the years until, reaching the Holocaust, the devastating secret at the heart of the family's history is finally revealed. Fault Lines is a riveting and poignant novel in which love, music and faith rage against the spectre of evil. Domestic in focus, epic in scope, and with powerfully drawn characters, it is a novel that is hard to put down.'Fault Lines is haunted by the upheavals of the twentieth century. A brilliant, deeply moving novel.' Le Monde'Explosive in its control and ambition.' Le Figaro
Les mer
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008, and winner of the Prix Femina 2006. No child can know the secrets of the past...

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781843548522
Publisert
2008-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Books
Vekt
303 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Nancy Huston was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1953 and studied in New England and New York. When she was twenty she went to Paris and decided to make it her home. Writing in both French and English, she translates her own work and is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, as well as plays, children's books and screenplays. Fault Lines, her eleventh novel, won France's prestigious Prix Femina in 2006.