Vorwort
A breakthtaking novel of England and Englishness from the author of Landed
Autorentext
Tim Pears is the author of five novels: In the Place of Fallen Leaves (which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty, A Revolution of the Sun, Wake Up and Blenheim Orchard. In a Land of Plenty was made into a ten-part BBC TV series. Tim Pears has also received the Lannan Award in USA. He lives in Oxford.
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'Tim Pears specialises in grand panoramas of our national life: teeming casts and multi-tracked plotting heavy with the scent of zeitgeist. For this, and quite a lot more besides, he deserves the highest praise'
Guardian
It begins at the stroke of midnight on January 1st 1997.
Over the course of this year a group of desperately different and unconnected individuals will meet: among them a mother-to-be, an amnesiac; a Conservative MP and a lonely cat burglar. They do not yet know that their lives are about to change, nor that they share a destiny which will prove impossible to withstand.
A Revolution of the Sun tells of one momentous year through the eyes of the people who lived it, and is also the anatomy of a nation in flux. Ambitious, powerful, irresistible, this is the work of an extraordinary writer who once again proves himself as a great contemporary novelist.
'The scope of this novel is far reaching. That it succeeds in combining all the elements and thrusting them ever forwards with humour and affection is testament to Pears' bold vision and large talent'
Daily Mail