Meticulously observed...a riveting tour de force... Impossible to put down

Daily Telegraph

A wonderful, clear-eyed portrayal of a child's bewildered negotiations with the adult world, shot through with evocative details... No Telling is beautifully written, extremely moving...not merely readable, but gripping

Independent

An extraordinarily beautiful and moving novel, the best yet from one of the finest and most underrated writers working in English today

- John Burnside, Scotsman

Se alle

Wonderful...the imaginative tour-de-force Thorpe achieves with<i> No Telling</i> confirms his status as an A-Team novelist

Financial Times

It is beautifully done. Thorpe perfectly captures the inconsequential nature of adolescence...powerful reading

The Economist

Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply dysfunctional: a dithering mother, a hard-drinking, womanising uncle who becomes his stepfather, and an older sister, Carole - an unbalanced revolutionary who hasn't danced her ballet steps since the death of their real father. Gilles is blithely unaware that any of this is out of the ordinary, as he and his friend Christophe try and piece together a world from fragments of rumour and hushed adult conversation. There is a deeper trauma here, however, far more shocking than anything Gilles could have dreamt of - a mystery it will take the events of the novel and eight years to resolve.
Les mer
Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him.
A gripping coming-of-age novel about families and the secrets they hold by the author of Ulverton.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099428831
Publisert
2004
Utgiver
Vintage Publishing; Vintage
Vekt
355 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
528

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012).


www.adamthorpe.net