Alastair Bruce

The Weight of Skin

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'You would not think it to look at you, but your voice, when you use it: akin to a god's. You must be careful what you do with it.'Exiled Jacob Kitara takes in injured compatriots and nurses them in a boarded-up building. Social unrest has emptied the streets of London, movement into and out of the country has been suspended, and those who remain are in hiding. When a young man makes his appearance, insisting that he is Jacob's son - a man presumed dead, torn from Jacob's life by war and guilt over the fate of the boy's mother - Jacob is driven to anger. But can this stranger offer Jacob a chance to reach back to a different continent, to the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4152-1030-7
EAN: 9781415210307
Produktnummer: 33258289
Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'544 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Alastair Bruce is a critically acclaimed novelist whose debut work, Wall of Days, was an Amazon Rising Stars runner-up, shortlisted for the best first book in the Africa region for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and subsequently published in the UK, and in German and Spanish translation. His second novel, Boy on the Wire, was shortlisted for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and awarded Amazon's Best Book of the Month. Born in Port Elizabeth, Bruce lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and two young children.