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Mar 29, 2011 | ISBN 9780143118091 Buy
Mar 29, 2011 | ISBN 9781101513484 Buy
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Mar 29, 2011 | ISBN 9780143118091
Mar 29, 2011 | ISBN 9781101513484
The stunning debut from “one of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade.” (Julian Barnes) With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family’s farm, rapidly becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region. The Broken Word was the recipient of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award, and Foulds’s The Quickening Maze was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
Adam Foulds was born in 1974. He took a Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in South London. His first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times, was published in 2007 and his book-length… More about Adam Foulds
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