An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature and whose body resists all attempts to contain it.
A girl - and later, woman - of unusual size and strength, fitting in is never an option for Jean, but it takes the chaos of war - and, later, America - to persuade her to fully appreciate her extraordinary stature.
'A gorgeous, sprawling novel and a rich, colourful tale' Metro
'Four hundred and thirty-one pages of glory' HELEN OYEYEMI
'A wonderfully inventive ode to being different' FT
'Rich, gaudy, clever and irrepressible' ALI SMITH
'A startlingly original first novel by a remarkable new talent' Independent
Autorentext
Anna Richards was born in Essex and currently lives in London. Little Gods, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, is her first novel.
Zusammenfassung
An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature and whose body resists all attempts to contain it. A girl - and later, woman - of unusual size and strength, fitting in is never an option for Jean, but it takes the chaos of war - and, later, America - to persuade her to fully appreciate her extraordinary stature. 'A gorgeous, sprawling novel and a rich, colourful tale' Metro 'Four hundred and thirty-one pages of glory' HELEN OYEYEMI 'A wonderfully inventive ode to being different' FT 'Rich, gaudy, clever and irrepressible' ALI SMITH 'A startlingly original first novel by a remarkable new talent' Independent