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Carol Birch
Orphan´s of the Carnival
2017. 384 S. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: CANONGATE BOOKS 2017
ISBN: 1-78211-656-7 (1782116567)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78211-656-1 (9781782116561)
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The dazzling new novel, evoking the thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach´s Menagerie
A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden.
Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico. She is heralded across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her unusual looks. Yet few can see past her freakish appearance to the ambitious woman within.
Orphans of the Carnival sweeps us from the music halls of Vienna to an attic in modern-day South London, playing out an epic tale of grit, love, music and the triumph of the human spirit pushed to extremes.
Strange and beautiful . . . Captures the lost world of carnivals and smoky backstreet theatres with hallucinatory vividness The Times
Carol Birch is the author of ten previous novels, including Scapegallows (2008) and Turn Again Home (2003) which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She has also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the David Higham Award for Best First Novel. Jamrach´s Menagerie was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the London Book Award.