Waxwings
$24.35
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
Longlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize
At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream.
For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it’s the family he thought he’d never have. For Chick - an illegal alien newly escaped from a cargo container - it’s the land of plenty he imagined back in China.
But as the stock market hits a new high, anti-globalist riots…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035091539 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035091534 |
| Author: | Jonathan Raban |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 134mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
[Waxwings] may well be one of the best accounts ever written of an American era * Kirkus *
A generous, affirming novel … Terrific * The New York Times Book Review *
A treasure – Colin Greenland * The Guardian *
A remarkable work * Literary Review *
A tour de force * The Washington Post Book World *
Hugely satisfying * The Independent on Sunday *
A delicious social comedy … Waxwings is also an elegant meditation on immigrant America * The Boston GLobe *
Waxwings teems with juicy, funny characters emblematic of their time and place * Entertainment Weekly *
Waxwings is zestfully written and full of deftly humorous touches * The Independent *
A keenly observant, ironic, yet at heart sympathetic exploration of what America has promised and provided * Chicago Tribune *
Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including:
- Passage to Juneau
- Bad Land
- Hunting Mister Heartbreak
- Coasting
- Old Glory
- Arabia
- Soft City
- Waxwings
- Surveillance
Over the span of six decades, he won numerous awards, including:
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award
- Thomas Cook Award
- PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award
- Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award
- Governor’s Award of the State of Washington
His work appeared in publications such as:
- The New Yorker
- Granta
- Harpers
- The New York Review of Books
- Outside
- Atlantic Monthly
- New Republic
- The London Review of Books
A British citizen, Raban moved from London to Seattle in 1990, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023.
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