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DescriptionThe breakthrough novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Insult and The Book of Revelation. Promotion infoA novel about a dystopian future by a master storyteller, following Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake or David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas A novel about family and loss, like The Child in Time Sure to bring Rupert Thomson to the larger readership he deserves Reviews'Sharply written ... One of his great strengths, in a genre that usually takes physical description as read, is an ability to evoke a landscape' Guardian 'The ideas behind Thomson's novel buzz with originality, sparking contemporary connections and recalling Brave New World and even Gulliver's Travels ... Divided Kingdom thrums with ideas and is a moving and, at times, gripping book' Observer 'This book is brave in a Brave New World kind of way, and should earn Thomson tons of readers' Esquire 'A hyper-real hallucination lit by sumptuous prose and fuelled by a prodigal gift for atmosphere and suspense' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Author descriptionRupert Thomson is the author of seven novels. His books have been shortlisted for awards including the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize for Air and Fire and the Guardian Prize for Fiction. He lives in Barcelona. |