Latecomers by Anita Brookner
The latecomers are Hartmann and Fibich, brought over to England as children to escape Nazi Germany, now living close to each other in London in their 60s, and still friends. Yet they could not be more different, each having adopted different strategies to reconcile themselves with their past and to cope with an uncertain world.
Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding -- Hilary Mantel Guardian Anita Brookner's best novel so far -- Victoria Glendinning She has never written a better novel.. unbearably moving -- Ruth Rendell It is hard to imagine her taut spare prose going out of fashion The Times
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141048291 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141048298 |
| Title | Latecomers |
| Author | Anita Brookner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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