The Violent Century : The epic alternative history novel from World Fantasy Award-winning author of OSAMA - perfect for fans of Stan Lee Paperback / softback
by Lavie Tidhar
Paperback / softback
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'An alternative history tour-de-force. Epic, intense and authentic . . . electric' - Tom Harper, author of Zodiac StationFor seventy years they guarded the British Empire.
Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate.
Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there must always be an account . . . and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields - to answer one last, impossible question:What makes a hero?*******************Praise for VIOLENT CENTURY:'Vintage Lavie, and also I think his most fully accomplished novel yet.
If Nietzche had written an X-Men storyline whilst high on mescaline, it might have read something like VIOLENT CENTURY' - Adam Roberts, author of Jack Glass'A big, ambitious book that manages to deliver' - Glen Mehn'An elegiac espionage adventure that demands a second reading' - Metro'Provides an insight into what it takes to be human, and what can happen when we lay that humanity aside.
It's a powerful novel, which will no doubt reward rereading' - Sci-Fi bulletin
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:24/04/2014
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- ISBN:9781444762891
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:24/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781444762891
