Ladysmith by Giles Foden
From the acclaimed author of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, LADYSMITH is a compelling tale of a town under siege during the Boer War, inspired by the letters of the author's great-grandfatherCaptivating... A highly accomplished historical novel
* Washington Post *Skillful.... Precise [and] affirming.... Foden creates a complex mosaic * Dallas Morning News *
LADYSMITH is a haunting, disturbing novel-not only about how things were in a long-forgotten war, but how that war made us what we are
* Independent *Once again Giles Foden has carried out an exacting program of reading and research
* New York Review of Books *The engine that keeps this novel in motion is not just the progress of the siege but the sense of lives lived before and afterward, of events and the memory of events slanting away into the steepening perspectives of age
* New York Review of Books *Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent much of his early life in Africa. For ten years, he was an editor and writer for the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, and his work has since been published in Granta, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times and Conde Nast Traveller, where he is a contributing editor. His fiction includes THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, ZANZIBAR, TURBULENCE and FREIGHT DOGS. THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND was made into an Oscar-winning feature film in 2006.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474624336 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474624332 |
| Title | Ladysmith |
| Author | Giles Foden |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2022-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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