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Synopsis
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests.
A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...
A year unlike any other he has lived.
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
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Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. He has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France, and currently lives in Somerset. His first novel,Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour prize in Italy. He has since written five novels:Casanova,Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Booker Prize in 2001,The Optimists,One Morning Like a Bird, and most recentlyPure, which won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award.
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Dazzling * Guardian * Superb * Literary Review * It draws you in with hallucinatory power * Daily Mail * Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing * Sunday Telegraph * Enthralling ... superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved * Observer * His recreation of pre-Revolutionary Paris is extraordinarily vivid and imaginative, and his story is so gripping that you'll put your life on hold to finish it * The Times *
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1444724258
- ISBN 13 9781444724257
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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