The Insult - Softcover

Thomson, Rupert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408833182 ISBN 13: 9781408833186

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2012

Synopsis

One of David Bowie's Top 100 Books, as chosen in the Independent It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. One spring evening, while Martin is practising in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens ...

About this title

Review:

The Insult is one of those rare, perfect, all-consuming books where your life takes on a new colour and texture for the days you are in its thrall (Mail on Sunday)

An astonishing exploration into the blurred hinterland where fiction meets fantasy ... Both crisply precise and extravagantly daring ... The Insult is a remarkable achievement (Sunday Telegraph)

A stunning premise, brilliantly unravelled ... It confirms Thomson in the front rank of English authors (Observer)

The Insult met every requirement I felt I could possibly have of a novel ... Breathtakingly clever (The Times)

Book Description:

The utterly engrossing and disturbing novel from the author of Divided Kingdom

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1408833182
• ISBN 13: 9781408833186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416