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The Breaking of Eggs (Paperback)
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Synopsis
A panoramic debut about love and loss, THE BREAKING OF EGGS announces a major new talent.
Change is in the air in a shabby apartment in the 19th arrondissment in Paris. One unremarkable day Madame Lefevre invites Feliks to call her Sandrine. As his indomitable landlady's manners have been as unvarying as her dresses for the last 36 years, this feels significant to Feliks. And it is. As the face of Europe transforms beyond recognition Feliks's own life teeters on the edge of change.
All it takes is one uncharacteristic decision and suddenly an unstoppable chain of life-changing events is set in motion. Feliks does not embrace change - in fact, it makes him most uncomfortable. But as he's reunited with a brother that he hasn't seen since his childhood and comes face-to-face with the love he let slip through his fingers, Feliks has to face up to the possibility that the convictions he has based his life upon were nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Soon his carefully constructed world is tumbling round his ears and Feliks wonders: is there such a thing as a second chance for someone like him?
Reviews
'Surprisingly warm and very witty'
STYLIST
'Fluent, unusual'
TLS
'A magnificent debut novel...a haunting, quietly brilliant story...a rare and remarkable achievement: a novel that meshes storytelling potency with historical erudition'
BOSTON GLOBE
'THE BREAKING OF EGGS is a story of great emotional depth, told in a clear-eyed, straightforward style. It revisits some of the most tragic events of the 20th century. What keeps it from being offputtingly grim and solemn, however, is the voice of Feliks: fussy, funny, erudite, arrogant, self-deluding and yet somehow, at long last, capable of change'
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
'An impressive first novel...wise and witty'
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Product Details
- 368 pages
- 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
- ISBN-13 Number: 9780753827765
- Publication Date: March 2011
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