Author: DOVEY, CERIDWEN
Title: Blood Kin
Description: Atlantic Books, UK, 2007. Softcover. New. 9781843546573 200 pages. Available Now. Book Description: A barber, a chef and a portraitist are held hostage in a sparsely-furnished room, in a grand summer residence perched on a hill overlooking the capital city of a nameless hot country. They have been seized in a bloody coup to depose the President, their boss. In the city streets below them, chaos reigns. With the old order ruined, the moral landscape ravaged and venality widespread, human relationships - personal and political, between lovers and within families - are being dissected, fought over, abandoned. As the tension builds and the story reaches its devastating climax, Blood Kin lays bare humanity's most animalistic and mercenary impulses: lust, vanity, ambition, artifice, betrayal, obsession and vengeance. The locations are lavish, the detail is scrupulous, and the scope and themes are nothing short of Shakespearean. Blood Kin is a masterful, thrilling and deeply affecting debut. : Review: A precise and terrifying debut novel. -The New York Times Book Review Dovey's surgical prose and cool apprehension of the machinations of ambition and lust make her a writer to watch. -O, The Oprah Magazine Taut and remarkably self-assured first novel . there's a knowing sensuality to the novel's sparsely lyric passages. -Los Angeles Times : About the Author: Ceridwen Dovey is a writer, film maker and anthropologist. She was born and raised in South Africa, and attended high school in Australia and university in America at Harvard. She is currently completing her PhD at Harvard University. She is 23 years old. Size: 13.9 x 1.6 x 21.5 cm. 200 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Paperback; ISBN: 1843546574. ISBN/EAN: 9781843546573. Inventory No: F237-1133.

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