Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/09/2014
ISBN: 9780099598329
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 127g
RRP: £9.99
'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' Guardian
Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across Europe, glory falls to ruin and love turns to hate.
But, when Henri encounters the red-haired, web-footed Villanelle, he discovers in her an equal. Together they abandon their pasts, and flee to the Venetian canals to meet their singular destiny in the city of chance and disguises.
'A deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so.' New York Times
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/09/2014
ISBN: 9780099598329
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 127g
RRP: £9.99
It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant
As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life
A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail
Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so
Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her