The clothes on their backs : a novel
Title:
The clothes on their backs : a novel
Author:
Grant, Linda, 1951-
ISBN:
9781439142363
Edition:
1st Scribner ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner, 2008
Physical Description:
293 p. ; 23 cm
General Note:
Shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Virago"--from t.p. verso.
Abstract:
A powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present. A woman, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals.
Subject:
| Jewish women -- Fiction |
| Hungarians -- England -- Fiction |
| Uncles -- Fiction |
| Nieces -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- Fiction |
Summary:
A powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present. A woman, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals.