Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance - FIRST PRINTING

Jones, Lloyd - SIGNED & RARE! ORIGINAL SOFT COVER

ISBN 10: 0143018183 / ISBN 13: 9780143018186

Published by Penguin New Zealand, 2002

About this Item

The prize winner who narrowly missed out on the Booker. Here is a rare and sought after earlier novel in its world first edition, a Penguin paperback, large format, and with the author's signature on the title page. This was signed at the Charleston Festival in Sussex. A perfect and seriously collectable copy of a rare book. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance - FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Penguin New Zealand
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143018183
• ISBN 13: 9780143018186
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall in love. Ranging from rural New Zealand during the final days of World War I to Buenos Aires at mid-century to the present day, this masterful novel intertwines two love stories across three generations. The deep suspicions of an isolated community in the midst of war force Louise and Schmidt—two near-strangers—to hide in a cave overlooking the ocean. Desperate for solace, Schmidt teaches Louise the tango, and the iconic dance becomes their mutual obsession and the trigger for an affair that will span continents. Years later, Schmidt’s granddaughter, keeper of the family secrets, owns a restaurant in Wellington where a shy young student named Lionel washes the dishes. One day she snaps her fingers in his direction and “I need to dance.” Brilliantly evoking the seductive power of one of the world’s most famous dances, Lloyd Jones’s novel is a virtuoso performance.