The Cement Garden
eBook - 2011
Orphaned siblings create a macabre secret world for themselves in this “irresistibly readable” novel by the New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Review of Books). This “powerful and disconcerting” novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Children Act and Atonement (The Daily Telegraph) tells the story of a dying family who live in a dying part of the city. A father of four children decides, in an effort to make his garden easier to control, to pave it over. In the process, he has a heart attack and dies, leaving the cement garden unfinished and the children to the care of their mother. Soon after, the mother too dies and the children, fearful of being separated by social services, decide to cover up their paren...ts’ deaths: they bury their mother in the cement garden. The story is told from the point of view of Jack, one of the sons, who is entering...
- Subjects
- Published
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RosettaBooks
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
- Format
- Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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ASIN | B08KH1FCH6 |
Release Date | 6/13/2012 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780795302596 |
Release Date | 6/13/2012 |