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Golden Child: Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019

(Hardback, Main)

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Full Title:

Golden Child: Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019

Contributors:

By (Author) Claire Adam

ISBN:

9780571339808

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

17th January 2019

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Narrative theme: sense of place

Dewey:

823.92

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 19mm

Weight:

489g

Description

Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life in a society. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness. When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already, and whom he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul's fate, his world shatters - leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make. Claire Adam's devastating first novel compassionately brings to life different ways of experiencing the world. Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.

Author Bio

Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad. She read Physics at Brown University and later took an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she gained a distinction. She lives in London.

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