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Blood Kin

Blood Kin

by Ceridwen Dovey (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in the mountains high above the capital city. Far below them, chaos tears through the streets. The chef's daughter, the portraitist's wife and the barber's lover watch their men from the shadows. In such precarious times, intimate relationships are as dangerous as political ones. As the old order falls, so does the veil that hides the truth about these men and women's secret passions. Drawing her readers masterfully towards the novel's devastating climax, CeridwenDovey reveals how humanity's most atavistic impulses - vanity, vengeance and greed - seethe, relentlessly, just beneath the carapace of civilization.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 200
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 12 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 1843546574
ISBN 13: 9781843546573

Media Reviews
A precise and terrifying debut novel. - The New York Times Book Review Dovey's surgical prose and cool apprehension of the machinations of ambition and lust make her a writer to watch. - O, The Oprah Magazine Taut and remarkably self-assured first novel . . . there's a knowing sensuality to the novel's sparsely lyric passages. - Los Angeles Times
Author Bio
Ceridwen Dovey grew up between South Africa and Australia, attended Harvard as an undergraduate, and now lives in New York. Blood Kin is her first novel.