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When We Were Romans
Artikel-Nr:
9780330435727
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.05.2008
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Matthew Kneale
Gewicht:
215 g
Format:
197x129x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Matthew Kneale won the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award with English Passengers and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also the author of Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance, Inside Rose's Kingdom, Sweet Thames (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and Mr. Foreigner (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize). He lives in Rome with his wife and two children.
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family, watching protectively over his mother and his wilful little sister Jemima. When the three of them suddenly move to Rome it seems at first to be a great adventure: a long drive through the night to the city of popes and emperors. But as his mother's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the threat that had forced them to Italy seems to have followed them there, Lawrence's excitement at his new surroundings gives way to something far harder to endure.
How do you cope when your family is falling apart?