The Dancer Upstairs
$28.41
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2021
Summary
For readers of William Boyd and John le Carre, an exhilarating literary thriller about the hunt for a missing terrorist in South America.
From the acclaimed author of The Sandpit, an exhilarating literary thriller about the hunt for a missing terrorist in South America.
Out of a job but in search of one last scoop from South America, journalist John Dyer strikes gold when he chances upon Agustin Rejas, a former police colonel whose dogged pursuit - and eventual capture - of mu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529114850 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529114853 |
| Author: | Nicholas Shakespeare |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Astoundingly good … This dramatic, moving story demands you put your life on hold until it is finished
Astoundingly good… This dramatic, moving story demands you put your life on hold until it is finished * Guardian *
Shakespeare is interested in grand themes: love, vocation, politics and the corrupting power of moral and ideological absolutes… The Dancer Upstairs will be enjoyed by any kind of reader… It is enviably good, a genuinely fine novel from a writer who possesses real heart and flair * Sunday Times *
In addition to being a satisfyingly rich tale or romance this is a highly intelligent examination of Peruvian - and South American - reality… Funny and devastating… I was riveted by this superb novel * New Statesman *
As cracking a story as any yarn, as informed as any journalism, and delivered with firmness and urgency * The Times *
A crackling good yarn…Graham Greene meets Gabriel García Márquez * Evening Standard *
Almost steams with the author’s understanding of South America and yet is somehow poetic and tender * Observer *
Will count among the best work being produced by the present generation of British writers * Independent on Sunday *
Truth is certainly stranger than fiction, but the fictionalised facts of The Dancer Upstairs make the story of the Shining Path illuminating reading * Sunday Telegraph *
Shakespeare is a good writer and a clever and ingenious storyteller…this is as good a book as we are likely to get about the atmosphere of the Sendero years * Times Literary Supplement *
Nicholas Shakespeare, using only black marks on white papers, has set in 1990s South America a story quite as evilly enchanting as the one about the Third Man Graham Green set in Vienna… Shakespeare’s unadorned prose is as clean and precise as the coroner’s scalpel. The Dancer Upstairs is an extraordinary story; no grown-up reader should neglect it
About The Author
Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs, Inheritance, Priscilla and Six Minutes in May. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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