Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Philip Hensher is a columnist for the Independent, arts critic for the Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. He has written eight novels, including ‘The Mulberry Empire’ and the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Northern Clemency’, and one collection of short stories. He lives in South London.
<p>‘A novel that is always a joy to read … Read it and allow yourself to become a better person’ Independent</p>
<p>‘Important … Glorious … He might have the iconoclastic temperament of a Kandinsky, but he is an old master when he glimpses the cat asleep under the table or the curve of a woman’s neck’ The Times</p>
<p>‘A glittering performance … “The Emperor Waltz” has the depth and pleasurable density of a 19th-century fiction; I loved it’ Ian Thomson, Evening Standard</p>
<p>‘Splendidly thought out and extraordinarily readable’ A S Byatt, Guardian</p>
<p>'A generous, courageous firework of a novel – a Roman candle, alive and fizzing in the hand' New Statesman</p>
<p>‘A book as joyful as its musical source … “The Emperor Waltz” is a beautiful book, both profound and funny. It is a powerful invocation to live a life of joy, surrounded by true friends’ Telegraph</p>
The most ambitious and daring novel novel yet from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher.
‘A novel that's almost fizzy to the touch … A performance of extraordinary flair and majesty from a writer who seems capable of anything’ Guardian
‘The Emperor Waltz’ is a single novel with three narrative strands: fourth-century Rome, 1920s Germany, and 1980s London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards the small coterie and its passionately-held beliefs and secrets with suspicion and hostility.
It is the story of eccentricity, its struggle, its triumph, its influence – but also its defeat.
The most ambitious and daring novel novel yet from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher.
‘A novel that's almost fizzy to the touch … A performance of extraordinary flair and majesty from a writer who seems capable of anything’ Guardian
• Philip Hensher is one of our most respected British authors. This book is a return, in scale – length and breadth – to Philip’s Booker-shortlisted ‘The Northern Clemency’ (TCM 73,500).
• It received absolutely incredible press on HB publication, and established itself as one of THE literary novels to read alongside THE GOLDFINCH (330,000) and THE MINIATURIST (45,000).
• Philip is internationally acclaimed and published in many languages.
Competition: Cloud Atlas; Cloud Atlas; Undermajordomo Minor; All For Nothing; 1606; Lady Oracle. Donna Tartt;Patrick deWitt; Walter Kempowski; James Shapiro; Margaret Atwood; Jenny Erpenbeck;
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Philip Hensher is a columnist for the Independent, arts critic for the Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. He has written eight novels, including ‘The Mulberry Empire’ and the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Northern Clemency’, and one collection of short stories. He lives in South London.