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Heliopolis
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As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo for a vacuous ‘communications company’. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riches story: Ludo’s destiny moves him around like a chess piece, showing him both extremities of opulent excess and abject poverty, taking him to the brink of madness and brutality.By the author of The Amnesia Clinic and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.2 × 12.8 × 19.6 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2010-2-4 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099523841 |
| About The Author | James Scudamore is the author of the novels Wreaking, Heliopolis, and The Amnesia Clinic. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award and been nominated for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Man Booker Prize.www.jamesscudamore.com |
Fast-paced with ingenious and constant twists, brilliantly sharp… an unsettling and magically compelling read |
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| Other text | Merits the epithet Dickensian in a number of ways: In its generous anger at injustice and inequality, its attention to the lives of the poor, and its relish for food… But, as with Dickens, you don't read this for the plot, but for the power of the writing, the descriptions that fizz off the page, and the lust for life |
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