Thrilling in every respect, but also hypnotic, fast-moving and intellectually challenging . . . Quite staggeringly good.

Daily Mail

It entertains us while it reflects with great profundity on the human condition . . . one of the best novelists around.

- Piers Paul Read, Spectator

Nicolson describes it as 'a thriller about the meaning of life' and that's pretty accurate . . . A genuinely thought-provoking read.

Mail on Sunday

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Very good . . . Kafka lurks in the background through all this but Nicholson successfully contrives to supplant that author's fatalism with a hard-won optimism concerning how to remain human amid inhumanity.

The Times

A pacy, tense and often funny read.

Daily Telegraph

He has nowhere to go...so he goes there. An alienated young man can see no meaning in life. He doesn't even see the point of getting out of bed in the morning. To escape from his family he decides to set off on a hitchhiking adventure around Europe, and is picked up by a friendly lorry driver with an unusual interest in philosophy. The journey takes him through a violent and Kafkaesque nightmare to a destination that changes his life.
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An alienated young man can see no meaning in life. To escape from his family he decides to set off on a hitchhiking adventure around Europe, and is picked up by a friendly lorry driver with an unusual interest in philosophy. The journey takes him through a violent and Kafkaesque nightmare to a destination that changes his life.
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Thrilling in every respect, but also hypnotic, fast-moving and intellectually challenging . . . Quite staggeringly good.
First adult novel by the bestselling children's author of THE WIND SINGER.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784160951
Publisert
2015-04-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Black Swan
Vekt
210 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

William Nicholson is the acclaimed author of the play Shadowlands, which was turned into a feature film starring Anthony Hopkins, for which he also wrote the screenplay. Hehas been the screenwriter for many other films, among them Gladiator. He is also the award-winning author of the bestselling trilogy of novels for children, The Wind on Fire. His novel, The Book of True Love, is available from Doubleday.


William Nicholson lives in Sussex. Visit the author's website on www.williamnicholson.com