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Akin

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Akin Synopsis

In her first contemporary novel since Room, bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with a brilliant tale of love, loss and family. The life of a retired New York professor is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera in the hopes of uncovering his own mothers wartime secrets.Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when he receives an unexpected request. A social worker is looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Although he has never met the boy, Noah is convinced to take Michael with him to France. Suffering from jet lag and culture shock, the odd couple argue about everything from steak hach to screen time, and the trip shows every sign of being a disaster. But Michaels skill with tech and his sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their familys past. Eventually they both come to understand that people of all eras run risks on behalf of their loved ones. In learning this they discover that they are more akin than they knew. Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick the threads of their painful stories and start to write a new one together.

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ISBN: 9781443458955
Publication date: 3rd September 2019
Author: Donoghue, Emma
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Format: Ebook (Epub)