Hand Me Down World
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Publishing Details
Hand Me Down World
By (Author) Lloyd Jones
Penguin Group (NZ)
Penguin Books (NZ)
3rd September 2011
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.2
Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - SE Asia and South Pacific 2011
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
312g
Description
The brilliant, haunting new novel from the author of the award-winning Mister Pip. A quiet, mysterious, unnamed woman has come from Africa on an impassioned quest. From the shoreline of Tunisia to the confusion of Berlin, she relies on strangers - some generous, some exploitive - to guide her passage, encountering love and betrayal in its many guises along the way. When the truth behind this spellbinding story is finally revealed, we are forced to revisit everything that has gone before.
Author Bio
Lloyd Jones has published essays and children's books but his best known works include the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wellington.
