Hand Me Down World

Author(s): Lloyd Jones

Novel

A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers - some generous, some exploiting - to guide her passage north. These strangers tell of their encounters with a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat - each account a different view of the truth, a different truth. And slowly these fragments of a life piece together to create a spellbinding story of the courage of a mother and the versions of truth we create to accommodate our lives. Haunting and beautiful, Hand Me Down Worldis simply unforgettable.


Product Information

Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - SE Asia and South Pacific 2011.

Lloyd Jones has published essays and children's books but his best known works include the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wellington.

General Fields

  • : 9780143566762
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
  • : 0.315
  • : August 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lloyd Jones
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.914
  • : 328