The White City - Softcover

Roma Tearne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910709336 ISBN 13: 9781910709337

Publisher: Aardvark Bureau, 2018

Synopsis

A permanently frozen London is the setting for a harrowing yet lyrical tale of survival in a dystopian near-future by Costa-shortlisted author Roma Tearne.
'Every day when I stand on high ground and look towards the Tower, to where the river used to be, I see it melt a little more.'
Hera has known great loss over decades of endless winter. The first snows coincided with the arrest of her brother on terrorism charges, and since then she has witnessed the total collapse of normal life in a devastated London. Her only source of comfort through it all has been her relationship with Raphael. Now, as the thaw begins, can she at last track down her elusive lover?
Within this compelling vision of a dystopian near-future, Roma Tearne offers us a moving study of human endurance.

About this title

Review:

'Tearne reminds us that, woven into London's cosmopolitanism, are memories of places to which individuals can never return.' (Brixton Review of Books)

About the Author:

Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born, Oxford-based artist, film-maker and writer. She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
Her debut novel, Mosquito , was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Book Awards First Novel prize. The Swimmer was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011 and Asian Man Booker in 2012.
Roma Tearne was recently writer-in-residence at the Imperial War Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aardvark Bureau
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910709336
• ISBN 13: 9781910709337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144