Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in the mountains high above the capital city. Far below them, chaos tears through the streets. The chef's daughter, the portraitist's wife and the barber's lover watch their men from the shadows. In such precarious times, intimate relationships are as dangerous as political ones. As the old order falls, so does the veil that hides the truth about these men and women's secret passions. Drawing her readers masterfully towards the novel's devastating climax, CeridwenDovey reveals how humanity's most atavistic impulses - vanity, vengeance and greed - seethe, relentlessly, just beneath the carapace of civilization.
Ceridwen Dovey grew up between South Africa and Australia, attended Harvard as an undergraduate, and now lives in New York. Blood Kin is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843546573 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843546574 |
| Title | Blood Kin |
| Author | Ceridwen Dovey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2007-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Winner of Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2008, Winner of University of Johnannesberg Prize for Creative Writing 2007, Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book - Africa 2008, Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2007 |
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