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Pure - Softcover

Miller, Andrew

 
9781609450670: Pure
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1609450671 ISBN 13: 9781609450670
Verlag: Europa Editions, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The clearing of a cemetery stokes the fires of revolution in eighteenth-century France in this Costa Prize-winning "novel of ideas disguised as a ghost story" (The New York Times).

Paris, 1785. An ambitious young engineer, Jean-Baptiste Baratte arrives in Paris charged with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, an ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood's air and water. A self-styled modern man of reason, Baratte sees his work as a chance to clear away the burden of history. But he soon suspects that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own fate-and the demise of the social order. As unrest against the court of Louis XVI mounts, the engineer realizes that the future he had planned may no longer be the one he wants. His assignment sets him on a path of discovery and desire, as well as relentless labor, assault, and sudden death.

"Pure is a compelling, timely novel-with its throb of revolution, of ordinary people arising in anger-a narrative that takes death as its subject yet races with life."-The Guardian

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, won the James Tate Memorial Prize for Fiction. He has since written five novels including Casanova and Oxygen, which was a finalist for the Whitbread Award and the Booker Prize in 2001. He lives in Somerset England.

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Verlag
Europa Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1609450671
ISBN 13 
9781609450670
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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