Akin
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:3rd Oct '19
£16.99
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A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets, in the new masterpiece from bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
A retired professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his adolescent great-nephew to the French Riviera in hopes of uncovering long-buried family secrets, in this stunning masterpiece from bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.
'If Room forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, Akin deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly' - Guardian
A retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.
Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.
This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.
Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.
'Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world' – Woman & Home
Highly emotional but never sentimental. * Vogue *
Akin offers a subtle, entertaining portrait of the relationship—and friction—between age and youth. * The Economist *
An important, touching novel that stays with you long after you’re done reading it. * Independent *
Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world. * Woman & Home *
A highly enjoyable novel’ * Daily Mail *
Absorbing.I loved the growing relationship between the two. -- Nina Pottell * Prima *
Sweet, tender and defiantly unsentimental, this is a sad, funny look at how flawed, fragile people develop a sense of belonging. * Psychologies *
A delicate and moving reminder of the way in which our human stories are made from practical choices – often in life as well as in literature. * Harper's Bazaar *
Heartwarming and humourous. * Radio Times *
A poignant and hopeful tale * Woman Magazine *
Praise for Room:
Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness
One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time -- John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Absorbing, truthful and beautiful . . . it is a kind of sustained poem in praise of motherhood and parental love * Observer *
Sophisticated in outlook and execution . . . Utterly plausible, vividly described * New York Times *
Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction * Irish Times *
ISBN: 9781529019964
Dimensions: 225mm x 145mm x 36mm
Weight: 488g
352 pages