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Communion Town

by Sam Thompson
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Every city is made of stories

Communion Town is a book that takes the reader on a journey through a city that is constantly changing, and is described in vivid detail. It is a great read for those who enjoy books that are both imaginative and atmospheric, and will leave readers feeling like they have just explored a new world.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Communion Town

by Sam Thompson
Compare to estimated retail price: RM141.00 MYR  

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ISBN: 9780007454761
Authors: Sam Thompson
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Date of Publication: 2012-07-05
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Horror, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.14
(rated by 589 readers)

Description

A city in ten chapters.Every city is made of stories: stories that intersect and diverge, stories of the commonplace and the strange, of love and crime, of ghosts and monsters.In this city an asylum seeker struggles to begin a new life, while a folk musician pays with a broken heart for a song and a butcher learns the secrets of the slaughterhouse. A tourist strays into a baffling ritual and a child commits an incalculable crime; private detectives search the streets for their archenemies and soulmates and, somewhere in the shadows, a figure which might once have been human waits to tell its tale.Communion Town is a city in ten chapters: a place imagined differently by each citizen, mixing the everyday with the gothic and the uncanny; a place of voices half-heard, sights half-glimpsed and desires half-acknowledged. It is a virtuosic first novel from a young writer of true talent.
 

Every city is made of stories

Communion Town is a book that takes the reader on a journey through a city that is constantly changing, and is described in vivid detail. It is a great read for those who enjoy books that are both imaginative and atmospheric, and will leave readers feeling like they have just explored a new world.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.