Akin (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 196) - Hardcover

Donoghue, Emma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1529019966 ISBN 13: 9781529019964

Publisher: Picador, 2019

Bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue returns with her new masterpiece, Akin, a brilliant tale of love, loss and family.

Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.

This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, and find they are more akin than they knew.

Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a young boy who unpick their painful stories and embark on writing a new one together.

Review:

Praise for Room:
Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness

-- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife

One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time -- John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Sophisticated in outlook and execution . . . Utterly plausible, vividly described, New York Times

Absorbing, truthful and beautiful . . . it is a kind of sustained poem in praise of motherhood and parental love, Observer

Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction, Irish Times

Highly emotional but never sentimental., Vogue

Akin offers a subtle, entertaining portrait of the relationship―and friction―between age and youth., The Economist

An important, touching novel that stays with you long after you’re done reading it., Independent

Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world., Woman & Home

A highly enjoyable novel’, Daily Mail

About the Author:

Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who spent eight years in England before moving to Canada. Her fiction includes Slammerkin, Life Mask and Touchy Subjects. Her 2010 novel, Room, was an internationally award-winning bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Emma's screenplay for Room's multi-award-winning film adaptation has earned her an Oscar nomination.

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1529019966
• ISBN 13: 9781529019964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352