I was blown away… Despite covering subjects as diverse as the Victorian guano trade, the KGB’s Cairo operations, post-mortem photography and an Agatha Christie-esque English country house murder, Tidhar manages to brilliantly realise each one

The Jewish Chronicle

Take this 157-year grand tour in the most interesting of company... As travelling companions go, the Feebes family are hard to beat.

- Tish Delaney,

SIX LIVESSix lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.THE GUANO MERCHANTIn 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co.MOMENTO MORIIn 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic. THE COUNTRY HOUSE MURDERIn 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder. THE SPYIn 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus.ZABBALEENin 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at Black Dirt, the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo. NEW YORKIn 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for al. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?
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A new stand-alone literary fiction novel from award-winning author Lavie Tidhar
A new stand-alone literary fiction novel from award-winning author Lavie Tidhar
SIX LIVES is award-winning author and 'literary triumph' (GUARDIAN) Lavie Tidhar's first standalone literary novel for Head of Zeus

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ISBN
9781804543511
Publisert
2024-08-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
464

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Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama and the forthcoming Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom prize winner Central Station (2016). He has also written comics (Adler, 2020) and children's books such as Candy (2018) and the forthcoming A Child's Book of the Future (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London.