The Bloodstone Papers: A Novel - Couverture souple

'Loops back and forth through history with remarkable lucidity . . . Very moving' Guardian
Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural melange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both. Epic in its scope, yet never losing sight of the telling detail, The Bloodstone Papers is a richly satisfying read which manages to ask the big questions without fuss, and accept that the big answers aren't always what you want to hear.
'Glen Duncan manages fluid narrative boundaries magnificently . . . A terrific yarn' Independent on Sunday
'It's unusual to criticise a novel for having characters who are too interesting, but if The Bloodstone Papers has a fault, it's that the Monroes, an Anglo-Indian family whose story begins in incipiently independent India and ends in the present day, are so beautifully vivid that one wouldn't care if nothing actually happened to them . . . The Bloodstone Papers resists the moral certitudes of much colonial fiction while achieving a vivid portrait of India which never slides into the exotic' Sunday Telegraph
'More ambitious than Duncan's earlier novels, without forfeiting any of their emotional intensity . . . Our sense that at the end of the novel both everything and nothing are resolved mirrors the blurred self-definition of the Anglo-Indians themselves. Such strength as the characters acquire comes from a conviction, shared with their author, in the enduring validity of love' Jonathan Keates, TLS
£7.99
Pocket Books
FICTION
ISBN-10: 1416522778

“Duncan’s polished, merciless, and frequently hilarious prose supplies a trove of pleasures all its own.” (Publishers Weekly)

“He is a major writer” (The Independent on Sunday)

“An appallingly intelligent writer” (The Guardian)

Superb...Perhaps this book will finally bring him the mainstream recognition he deserves. (Arena)

‘Richly satisfying. Duncan manages to fuse racial and personal dislocation beautifully in this long, seductive narrative....A terrific yarn.’ (The Independent on Sunday)

[A] sprawling, ambitious work...it loops back and forth through history with remarkable lucidity... ultimately very moving.’ (Alfred Hickling, The Guardian)

“A vigorous roman à ghee, reminiscent at turns of Vikram Seth, Zadie Smith and Douglas Coupland.” (Kirkus Reviews)