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Format: E-bok
Filformat: EPUB med LCP-kryptering (0.0 MB)
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Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 288
Utgivningsdatum: 2011-09-05
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408824542

A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In E-bok

Name: A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In
Price: 215.00 SEK
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Author: Magnus Mills
ISBN: 9781408824542

av Magnus Mills

E-bok (LCP), Engelska, 2011-09-05

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A brilliant fantastical satire from the Booker-shortlisted author, reminiscent of the best of Jonathan Swift

''Magnus Mills is Britain''s most original writer, so forget everything you''ve been told about fiction - he has never even heard of the rules that apply to everyone else'' The Times

''A beautiful, singular book; funny and acutely observed'' Independent

Far away, in the ancient empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. The imperial orchestra is presided over by a conductor who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure that the sun always sets at five o'' clock, and the Astronomer Royal is only able to use the observatory telescope when he can find a sixpence to put in its slot.

But while the kingdom drifts, awaiting the return of the young emperor, who has gone abroad and communicates only by penny post, a sinister and unfamiliar enemy is getting closer and closer...

A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In is Magnus Mills''s most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a world that, although strange and distant, contains rather too many similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar and disturbingly close to home. It is comic writing at its best - and it is Magnus Mills''s most ambitious, enjoyable and rewarding novel to date.

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