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Traversing the globe — London, Lima, Cork, Devon, Cairo, and New York — and centuries, from 1855 to 2012, Lavie Tidhar’s Six Lives is a magnificent matryoshka of a novel. Presenting six stories about fascinating individuals who are bound by blood and a shared desire to be free from the ties of birth, Tidhar’s writing is alchemical, smouldering with his characters’ passions, ambitions and frustrations as it shifts genres, from murder mystery to spy thriller, and more.
We meet the first of the Feebes clan in 1855, when Edward travels to Lima to investigate a problem with his family’s guano business. Then there’s Annie. A Cork corpse photographer who, on finding herself unmarried, pregnant and alone at the age of 26, blackmails her way to America as the Titanic awaits. Next, we shift to a 1930’s country house murder mystery, a KGB spy thriller, a 1980s actor reviewing her life, and a 21st-century heiress whose freedom from ancestral weight might just come in the wake of loss.
Spellbinding and smart, measured and fierily evocative, Six Lives is an immensely satisfying achievement.
Joanne Owen
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SIX LIVES
Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.
THE GUANO MERCHANT
In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America, to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co.
THE BLACKMAILER
In 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic.
THE IDEALIST
In 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder.
THE SPY
In 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus.
THE MOVIE STAR
In 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at 'Black Dirt', the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo.
THE HEIRESS
In 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for all. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781804543511 |
| Publication date: |
29th August 2024 |
| Author: |
Lavie Tidhar |
| Publisher: |
Apollo an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
464 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Literary Fiction
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About Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama and the forthcoming Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom prize winner Central Station (2016). He has also written comics (Adler, 2020) and children's books such as Candy (2018) and the forthcoming A Child's Book of the Future (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London.
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