Old Filth
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
'A magnificent, deeply moving and compassionate portrait of an era and a sentimental education. Please read it'Daily Mail FILTH, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong.Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In doing so, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of the British Em…
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- ISBN: 978-0-349-13949-4
- EAN: 9780349139494
- Produktnummer: 15446873
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.3 cm x D1.8 cm 216 g
- Gewicht: 216
Über den Autor
Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.
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