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A Lily of the Field

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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"Observe in what an original world we are now living: how many men can you find in Europe who have never killed; or whom somebody does not wish to kill?' Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans. Auschwitz, 1944. Meret is imprisoned but is saved from certain death to play the cello in the camp orchestra. She is playing for her life. London, 1948. Viktor Rosen wants to relinquish his Communist Party membership after thirty years. His comrade and friend reminds him that he committed for life...These seemingly unconnected strands all collide forcefully with a brazen murder on a London Underground platform, revealing an intricate web of secrecy and deception.

Praise for John Lawton: 'John Lawton finds himself in the same boat as the late Patrick O'Brian - a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack but overlooked by too many readers for too long.' Daily Telegraph 'Admirable, ambitious and haunting, this is the sort of thriller that defies categorisation. I look forward with enthusiasm to the next one.' Spectator 'John Lawton's books contain such a wealth of period detail, character description and background information that they are lifted out of any category. Every word is enriched by the author's sophistication and irreverent intelligence, by his meticulous research and his wit.' Literary Review

Title: A Lily of the Field
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Contributors: By (author) John Lawton

ISBN 13: 9781611855913
ISBN 10: 1611855918

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: New York, United States
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm