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Our Fathers

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:6th May '04

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Andrew O'Hagan's Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists.

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'A beautiful, elegiac work .

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'A beautiful, elegiac work . . . This should be required reading for everybody.' Ian Rankin

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists.

Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses - of three men in search of Utopia.

  • Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2001
  • Short-listed for Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2000
  • Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1999
  • Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1999
  • Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1999

ISBN: 9780571201068

Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 17mm

Weight: 193g

304 pages

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