The Clothes on Their Backs

Name: The Clothes on Their Backs
Author: Linda Grant
ISBN: 9781439143193

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#3263 of 8,085 books · #1609 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2008).

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival both banal and heroic and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.

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