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The Siege
The Siege
hardback
Published:
7 June, 2001
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Description
Prizes
Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 and Orange Prize 2002 and Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2001 and Whitbread Prize (Novel) 2001.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780670897186 |
| ISBN10 | 0670897183 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 598 g |
| Product Dimensions | 160 x 32 x 236 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Viking |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
Media Reviews
A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully * Sunday Telegraph *
Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better * Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph *
Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel * Antony Beevor, The Times *
Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there * Sunday Telegraph *
A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds * Mail on Sunday *
In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece * Independent *
A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time * Sunday Express *
An important as well as a thrilling work of art * Independent on Sunday *
A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful * Daily Mail *
A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive * Sunday Times *
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Author's Bio
Helen Dunmore has published six novels with Viking and Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; and With Your Crooked Heart. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer; her two collections of short stories, Love of Fat Men and Ice Cream, are also published by Viking and Penguin. She lives in Bristol.