Hand Me Down World

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Literary Fiction

Hand Me Down World

Lloyd Jones

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From the author of the beloved, bestsellingMister Pip: a novel about a mother's search for her stolen child. A novel you can't stop thinking about. A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a homemade knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers — some generous, some malevolent — to guide her passage north. These strangers tell of their encounters with her, building her story in fragments of memory, prejudice and sentiment into a moving work of sacrifice and love.Hand Me Down Worldtells an epic story about the courage of a mother, the versions of truth to which we accommodate our lives, and love's ultimate power to redeem us.

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Publisher

Knopf Canada

Pages

313

Format

PAPERBACK

ISBN-13

9780307400147

ISBN-10

030740014X

Language

English

Published

2010-11-02