Pure by Andrew Miller
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
Praise for ONE MORNING LIKE A BIRDA revelatory perspective on an Eastern city in the second world war ...The prose is as delicate as a Japanese print Sunday Times Not only does he combine delicious literary conceits with thought-provoking explorations into the human condition, he has the rare gift of tossing out perfect sentences that make you stop in your tracks Metro Miller's delicate prose most closely recalls the tone of emotional restraint in Kazuo Ishiguro's early novels ... deftly coheres into a typically bittersweet resolution. Independent on Sunday Deeply moving, written with loving attention to language, it felt like Pasternak back from the dead. Scotsman
Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. He has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France, and currently lives in Somerset. His first novel, INGENIOUS PAIN, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour prize in Italy. He has since written four novels: CASANOVA, OXYGEN, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Booker Prize in 2001, THE OPTIMISTS, and ONE MORNING LIKE A BIRD.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781444724264 |
| ISBN 10 | 1444724266 |
| Title | Pure |
| Author | Andrew Miller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2011-06-09 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of Costa Novel Award 2011, Winner of Costa Book of the Year 2011 |
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