Graham Swift: Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here


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Time Out Novel of the Year 'Astonishingly moving' Sunday Express On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton -- former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park -- receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother's remains, but also to return to the land of his past and confront his most secret, troubling memories. Building to a fiercely suspenseful climax, Wish You Were Here is a hauntingly compassionate story that allows us to feel the stuff of headlines as heart-wrenching personal truth. 'Profound and powerful ...an unputdownable read' Scotland on Sunday 'A wonderful writer' Daily Telegraph

From the Gobi Desert to the Philippines, from Java to Tibet and into China itself, Brook uses the map (actually a schematic representation of China's relation to astrological heaven) to tease out the varied elements that defined this crucial period in Wish You Were Here download ebook China's history. From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize shortlisted"The Glass Room"and"Trapeze" It is 490BC and Athens is at war. Leander, trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow's battle against a far mightier enemy, begins to recount the story of his own life. Having witnessed the evils of the old tyrannical regimes and the rise of a new political system, Leander tells a tale of danger, bravery and big ideas, of the death of gods and the tortuous birth of democracy. Through a series of breathtaking scenes, we see that democracy was forged from chance and historical contingency - but also through the cunning and courage of a group of highly talented, driven individuals. Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna, artists behind the international phenomenon Logicomix, together with writer Abraham Kawa deliver a graphic novel bursting with extraordinary characters and vibrant colour, one that offers fresh insight into how this greatest of civic inventions came to be.


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Author: Graham Swift
Number of Pages: 368 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780330535847
Download Link: Click Here
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