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The Songs

Autor Charles Elton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2018
From the bestselling author of Mr Toppit, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, comes a riotous, darkly comic story of siblings searching for the truth about their musician father - for fans of The Rosie Project, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Humans

Iz Herzl, renowned political activist and protest singer, has always refused to dwell on the past. Now eighty, he sits in his house in Muswell Hill, while his lovers - some past, some present - dance attendance upon him. Downstairs, Iz's children - teenage maths wunderkind Rose, and her dying brother Huddie - spend their days picking through the myths and secrecy that have always swirled around their unknowable father.

But Iz can't keep the past at bay forever. Into their lives comes Joseph: his first child, whom Rose and Huddie have never met. And his arrival will change things in ways that Rose and Huddie could never have anticipated.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408882344
ISBN-10: 1408882345
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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A bittersweet melody as heartbreaking as it is droll
This is a truly wonderful novel - heartbreaking, funny, and such a painful dissection of family life it makes one wince
Elton has an arch wit, an engaging style and a sense of invention that recalls Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!
This is an extraordinary debut, not only for its confident storytelling but for its nerdish familiarity with such an eclectic range of subjects . Dark, funny. jangly with secrets
Mr Toppit is miles ahead of most debut novels and makes an engrossing, moving and perceptive read . Quite a ride
A chillingly mingled hit of love, need and dread
A masterly tale of quiet torment
Partly Royal Tenenbaums-style saga of dysfunctional family. part coming-of-age tale . and part satire on the iniquities of celebrity and hype
Poignant and engaging
Aficionados from all parts of N10 will no doubt pounce on Charles Elton's tale of a radical patriarch sitting bethroned mong admirers from old summers - and winters - of love but about to be rained on by his firstborn