Akin

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Beschreibung

<p><b><i>Akin</i> is a tender tale of love, loss and family, f</b><b>rom Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of <i>Room.</i></b><br><br><b>'If <i>Room </i>forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, <i>Akin</i> deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly' - <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.<br><br>Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.<br><br>This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael helps Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, they find they are more akin than they knew.<br><br><b><i>Akin </i>is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.</b><br><br><b>'Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of<i> Room</i> has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world' - <i>Woman &amp; Home</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529019988

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 132 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan