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Hugo Hamilton - Disguise - 9780007314706 - KRF0031544
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Disguise

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Description for Disguise Paperback. Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 212. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.

Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of ‘The Speckled People’ and ‘Sailor in the Wardrobe’, turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century.

1945. At the end of the second world war in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings. She flees to the south, where her father finds a young foundling of the same age among the refugee trains to replace the boy. He makes her promise never to tell anyone, including her husband ... Read more

2008. Gregor Liedmann is a Jewish man now in his sixties. He's an old rocker who ran away from home, a trumpet player, a revolutionary stone-thrower left over from the 1968 generation. On a single day spent gathering fruit in an orchard outside Berlin with family and friends, Gregor looks back over his life, sifting through fact and memory in order to establish the truth. What happened on that journey south in the final days of the war? Why did his grandfather Emil disappear, and why did the Gestapo torture uncle Max? Here, in the calmness of the orchard, along with his ex-wife Mara and son Daniel, Gregor tries to unlock the secret of his past.

In his first novel since the best-selling memoir ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton has created a truly compelling story of lost identity, and a remarkable reflection on the ambiguity of belonging.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007314706
SKU
KRF0031544
Shipping Time
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About Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton was born and grew up in Dublin. He is the author of five novels and two internationally acclaimed memoirs, ‘The Speckled People’ and ‘Sailor in the Wardrobe’.

Reviews for Disguise
Sebastian Barry, Guardian (Book of the Year) ‘An eloquent and haunting book about identity and the construction of a self under duress….Though much of the historic and personal material here is brutal , the tone of the book is oddly consoling. He does tenderness very well.’ Hermione Lee, ... Read more

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