Timoleon Vieta Come Home - Softcover

A delight, a masterpiece of beautifully unforced comedy. * * Observer * * By turns hilarious and heartrending. Rhodes is that real, rare thing - a natural storyteller. * * Sunday Times * * Utterly captivating. * * Heat * * This intelligent, bitter-sweet novel, exploring the relationship between an effete, expatriate socialite living in the Italian country-side with the eponymous Timoleon Vieta ('a mongrel with the most beautiful eyes'), should only serve to cement that reputation and confirm his early promise. I forsee this title being a spring sensation for Canongate, and it has already created a great deal of word-of-mouth excitement in the trade. -- Greg Eden, Bookseller The best new writer in Britain. * * The Guardian * * Very funny and very sharp with crushingly wicked moments. * * The Times * *

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He is the author of Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta Come Home and Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love, also published by Canongate. In 2003 he was named by Granta Magazine as one of their twenty Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in Edinburgh.