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The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency.
“I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the war alive.”
One family’s life, and a nation – Bangladesh – are uniquely created through conversation, sacrifice, songs, bonds, blood, bravery and jokes. Narrated by a young boy born into a savage civil war, ‘Scenes from Early Life’ is a heartbreaking, funny and gripping novel by one of our finest writers.
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Title: Scenes from Early Life <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Philip Hensher <>Publisher: Fourth Estate
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‘Beautifully packed with detail ... does for Bangladesh what Salmon Rushdie did for India with Midnight’s Children ... It is a remarkable re-creation of a land that most of us know little about’ Sunday Times
‘This is his most purely pleasurable novel to date’ Daily Mail
‘Highly impressive ... for all Hensher's accomplished ventriloquism – his ability to inhabit the voice of a Muslim child and a history teacher at the same time – his own voice is not lost ... heart-breaking’ Guardian
‘A deeply interesting book ... The joins are seamless ... It is inventive, clever and loving; a Booker candidate, I would have thought.’ Spectator
‘...this delightful book shows for the first time what Hensher has largely concealed in the past: his heart’ Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0007513720
- ISBN 13 9780007513727
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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