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Item Details
Title:
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THE BELL-BOY
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By: |
James Hamilton-Paterson |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£14.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571317537 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571317530 |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
17 July, 2014 |
Edition: |
Main |
Pages: |
192 |
Description: |
A young bell-boy, Laki, who is up from the provinces and lives on top of his hotel in the holy city of Malomba. He moonlights as a shrewd guide for foreign visitors, his latest clients being a hippie English family who are in Malomba for psychic surgery. Their mutual exploitation leads to both farce and minor tragedy. |
Synopsis: |
The Bell-Boy was James Hamilton-Paterson's third novel, first published in 1990. "Somewhere on my tropical travels I encountered a rickety hotel on whose roof an ancient servant lived in a converted hen coop. This gave me the idea for a young bell-boy, Laki, who is up from the provinces and lives on top of his hotel in the holy city of Malomba. He moonlights as a shrewd guide for foreign visitors, his latest clients being a hippie English family who are in Malomba for psychic surgery. Their mutual exploitation leads to both farce and minor tragedy". (James Hamilton-Paterson). "A brilliant religious satire with elements of E.F. Benson and Evelyn Waugh...Few books since E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (whose formal perfection this novel shares) have conveyed more intensely the allure (and the revulsion) the East holds for Westerners". (New York Times). |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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