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Heligoland

3.71 ( 75 Ratings by Goodreads)
Heligoland

Heligoland

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3.71 (75 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 1 January, 2004
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Description

The Nautilus, a strange building shaped like the chambered shell of the same name, was built in South London in the early 1930s. Designed on Modernist and Utopian principles, it was a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists. Now, at the end of the century, only two of the original inhabitants still occupy their chambers - Celeste Zylberstein, joint architect with her late husband of the Nautilus, and Francis Campion, an elderly poet. Gus Crabb, a dealer in bric-a-brac, is the only other resident until, to the Nautilus, like a hermit crab seeking a home, comes Rowena Snow. Of Indian/Scottish parentage, orphaned, without family or friends, Rowena is in search of her own Utopia - or the Heligoland of her childhood imagination. Shorlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award.
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Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2003 and Whitbread Prize (Novel) 2003.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099273592
ISBN10 0099273594
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 159 g
Product Dimensions 122 x 14 x 196 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage
Format paperback
Edition New edition
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With what tenderness, rage, wit and accuracy Mackay writes about loneliness and belonging-What a brilliant novel this is Independent on Sunday Elegant, elusive... The writing is superb-[Mackay's] gentle mastery of language is quite beyond showy displays of technique Guardian An intriguing, witty and provocative story Daily Mail Tender, funny and wonderfully realised Sunday Express Shena Mackay is a national treasure... She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer: creating a world that is utterly her own Daily Telegraph

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Author's Bio

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of five collections of stories - Babies in Rhinestones, Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags, The Laughing Academy, The World's Smallest Unicorn and The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories. Her novels include Dunedin, The Orchard on Fire (which was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize) and The Artist's Widow.

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