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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; ´not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past´ (The Times)

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; ´not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past´ (The Times)

Walter Van Brunt is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speed. He likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts. When he receives a new plastic foot he is determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.

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World´s End is a book to treasure and savour ... In rich and sensuous prose, studded like a mace with knobs of black humour, Boyle invokes the colonial past ... Not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past The Times

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Boyle, T. C.
T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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