Opium Salar Abdoh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h177mm x w112mm x s21mm 185g ISBN13: 9780571221172 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22117-2 ISBN10: 0571221173 EAN: 9780571221172 x Description: Opium is the story of a world-weary young American who has spent a substantial part of his thirty-something years in the Middle East. Formerly a low-level drug-runner along the Afghan/Iran border, he is now living in New York and keeping a low profile as a simple hotel clerk. But in the new age of mass terror Chase's past inevitably catches up to him, and he finds himself on a quest that thrusts him through three continents where he is confronted by drug dealers and assassins, Middle Eastern agents and embittered Western converts to Islam, as well as powerful Moslem Shiite clerics who run the clandestine arm of one of the most insidious security services ever assembled. Finding himself in this maze of intrigue, murder and doubledeals, he sees no option but to play a lethal end-game in the heart of the Axis of Evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h222mm x w141mm 500g ISBN13: 9780007176113 ISBN13: 978-0-00-717611-3 ISBN10: 0007176112 x Description: A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. She lives in fear of his violence and the words in her textbooks begin to turn to blood in front of her eyes. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. The house is noisy and full of laughter. Here she discovers love and a life - dangerous and heathen -- beyond the confines of her father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in time, reveal a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family life. This first novel is about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new; between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred. An extraordinary debut, Purple Hibiscus is a compelling novel which captures both a country and an adolescence at a time of tremendous change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Fall in Love Cecelia Ahern (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 220g ISBN13: 9780007481583 ISBN13: 978-0-00-748158-3 ISBN10: 0007481586 EAN: 9780007481583 x Description: `Tender, funny and romantic' Marie Claire