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Köp båda 2 för 279 krOne of the most outstanding novelists of his generation * Spectator * Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy * Observer * Enjoyable on many different levels * Sunday Times * A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope * Newsweek * A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit * Margaret Drabble * No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell * Time * His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow * Olivia Manning *
J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels. Among his novels, TROUBLES won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and the Lost Man Booker prize in 2010 and THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973. In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.