ISBN: 0008451672 9780008451677

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 304

'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley<br> <br> <br> <br> 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle<br> <br> <br> <br> 'A masterpiece' Sebastian Barry<br> <br> <br> <br> The new novel about the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another from the author of The Speckled People.<br> <br> Narrated in the voice of Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion, Hugo Hamilton's stunning, formally inventive new novel tells the life story of that book, initially rescued from the Nazi book-burning in Berlin in May 1933. It recounts the life of its Austrian-Jewish author, a writer on the run, and his intriguing wife Friederike who fell victim to mental illness.<br> <br> <br> <br> And it tells a multitude of other stories: of Adreas Pum, a barrel-organ player down on his luck; of a young German American woman who finds a small map drawn by hand on its own blank page in the back, a thrilling mystery which will lead her to Berlin, the book's birthplace.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Pages carries profound echoes from the past into the present day and is an inspiring story of the survival of literature over a hundred years.