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Synopsis
August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else.
A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost.
As Cosmo raises questions about August's identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul...
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A glorious collision of the mundane and the supernatural, Monique Roffey's wonderful debut Sun Dog is a magical realist tale that hails not from South America or the subcontinent but one of West London's grubbier neighbourhoods.
The book is set mainly in and around a Shepherd's Bush delicatessen. While Roffey vividly conjures this "gastronomic locker room" she positively lavishes her imagination on August Chalmin, her extraordinary protagonist. August is an awkward pale-skinned gentle giant who has "the eyes of a veal calf" and "blood-orange hair which limbo dances crazily from his head". His pigmentation matches the hues of the Mimolette cheese that lurks beside the Boscaillo olives, Venetian polenta, Milanese panettone and Caspian caviar on the deli's teeming counter. Although he understands food, much of life is a mystery to him. He’s captivated by matronly co-worker Henry and infatuated with Leola, the local florist, but love, at least so far, has largely proved elusive. Raised by his mother, Olivia, in a Yorkshire hippie commune, he never knew his father. When Cosmo, one of Olivia’s former lovers, suddenly materialises after more than 20 years he starts to wonder about his parentage.
As doubts grow, his appearance, odd enough to begin with, starts to change. His body becomes coated in frost. By spring, just as he is beginning to unearth more about his origins, buds sprout from his skin. His physiognomy appears to be echoing the seasons. Could he be allergic to the deli's food? Or, do these transformations offer a clue to the identity of his real father? More Hans Christian Anderson than Franz Kafka, Roffey's novel, replete with a few exquisite tributaries, is an ingenious fable about the nature of love, truth and perception.--Travis Elborough
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'A mellow tale...Roffey is razor sharp on the daily humdrum...Sun Dog is a striking and original first novel' -- Dazed & Confused
'Enchanting. Roffey handles this modern-day metamorphosis beautifully; her imagery is original, the story completely beguiling' -- Daily Mail
'Full of sensuality...a delightfully unusual debut' -- The Times
'It's rare to read a novel with such great heart' -- Guardian
'This is an extraordinary first novel. Buy it, then tell all your friends to do the same' -- Heat
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1849833036
- ISBN 13 9781849833035
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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