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My Son, My Son
Douglas Galbraith
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Description for My Son, My Son
Paperback. What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This title is a provocative journey through complex and controversial territory: child murder, tsunami, international conventions, hatred, cultures at war. It goes to the heart of relations between parents and children, men and women, and between races - to the heart of what it is to be alive. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JKV; VFVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
What do you do when your wife abducts your children?
This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days' work in London.
The house was silent, empty and locked; his four and six-year-old sons' pyjamas lay on the bedroom floor. And on the doormat, confirmation from the Post Office of a forwarding address - in Japan. He has not seen them since.
This book goes to the very heart of relations between parents and children, men and women, and between races and nations - to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099552680
SKU
V9780099552680
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-25
About Douglas Galbraith
Douglas Galbraith was born in Glasgow in 1965 and is the author of three novels, The Rising Sun, A Winter in China, and King Henry. He lives in Scotland.
Reviews for My Son, My Son
This book is a howl of pain, beautifully written by a man wounded beyond endurance
Sunday Telegraph
A memoir and a meditation that is provocative, humorous, stimulating and profoundly affecting...accomplished...a great, unsettling book
Glasgow Herald
Magnificent … as with the best art only suffering and loss can create such brilliance’
Scottish Review of Books
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Sunday Telegraph
A memoir and a meditation that is provocative, humorous, stimulating and profoundly affecting...accomplished...a great, unsettling book
Glasgow Herald
Magnificent … as with the best art only suffering and loss can create such brilliance’
Scottish Review of Books
... Read more