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3 de may. de 2024 · Jiddah also provided the backdrop for her next novel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), a political thriller charged with a sense of profound cultural conflict. Demonstrating her versatility, Mantel followed that book with a fanciful religious mystery set in 1950s England, Fludd (1989).
25 de abr. de 2024 · Synopsis. About this title. About this edition. When Frances Shore joins her engineer husband in Jeddah she is warned not to ask questions....Bored by days spent gossiping or patrolling with the cockroach spray, she begins to speculate about her neighbours and the empty flat above her.
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All her stuff is good but the later novels are better, imo, than her earlier ones. Don't bother with Fludd. Wolf Hall obviously, but maybe acclimatise yourself with a less-weighty read [Wolf Hall is very dense and very demanding.] I'd say; the terrifying Eight Months on Ghazzah Street and Beyond Black. Both very dark.
13 de may. de 2024 · Hilary Mantel – Eight Months on Ghazzah Street – fictionalised autobiography of expat life, another one passed to me by Ali Bob Mortimer – And Away – and actual, though probably tweaked amusingly, autobiography from the hilarious writer
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13 de may. de 2024 · Then the Wolf Hall phenomenon, and halleluiah! Between the library discovering her back list and the Book Depository, I got my hands on Every Day is Mother’s Day, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Fludd (woo hoo!) Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. IMHO it’s that darkness in her early work that paved her way to writing Wolf Hall.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Eight Months on Ghazzah Street - Hilary Mantel 2010-05-06 From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia.
