The Unnumbered

North, Sam

ISBN 10: 0743248503 / ISBN 13: 9780743248501

Published by Scribner, 2004

About this Item

Near fine condition.Scribner,2004.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(a couple of small nicks,crease and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark and light shelf wear on the outer edges,small nick and crease on the edges of the pages.358pp.Price un-clipped.

Seller Inventory # 4355

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Unnumbered
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743248503
• ISBN 13: 9780743248501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition-first printing.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The setting is present day London; a familiar scene you may think, but the people who inhabit this London are not the office workers, the shoppers, who form the lifeblood of the city, but those who move around its edges, the dispossessed, who live quite a different existence, under the tunnels and the waste grounds that the rest of us hurry by. Some are refugees, some are escaping from the blanket of domesticity; some have fallen through violence. They all try to survive. Nio a young Greek man has built a hidden home in Coldfall Woods, near St Pancras Cemetery. Mila, a spirited Romanian refugee lives with her family in a huddle of caravans near the North Circular Road. Nio is a dreamer, Mila is feisty. Together they will take on this ragged life; together they will win. But theirs is not an easy city. Their London exacts a hard tribute. There are pitfalls in this London, from which the dispossessed, however strong their will, find hard to recover. A wonderful, heartwarming, heartbreaking tale of a love that takes on all that such a city might throw at it.

About the Author

Sam North is a director with literary agency Conville & Walsh. He is the author of THE AUTOMATIC MAN, winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, CHAPEL STREET, THE GIFTING PROGRAMME, BY DESIRE, THE LIE OF THE LAND, the Man Booker-longlisted THE UNNUMBERED, and THE VELVET ROOMS.