Entrancing

- NEIL GAIMAN,

A family saga of human fallibility, love, eccentricity, sex, spirituality, and of a lost, legendary, coincidentally lethal route to absolute transcendence . . . [Thomas] is a splendid novelist

- WILLIAM GIBSON,

Positively luminous - funny, daring, fizzing with ideas and altogether captivating

* DAILY MAIL *

Se alle

A far-out botanical adventure in ways which are brutally funny and profound all at once. Barbed, casually genius, philosophical and intensely readable. A joy

- MATT HAIG,

Filthily gorgeous . . . Imagine Muriel Spark's disreputable niece

* SPECTATOR *

A delightful compound of fantasy and traditional family saga... a modern fairytale, with flashes that are savagely funny

* THE TIMES *

You won't read a livelier tale about sex, death and out-of-body experiences all year

* SUNDAY TIMES *

This magical family saga will cement Thomas' position at the literary top table

* RED *

Smart, talented, inventive, and diverting . . . This is Thomas' most accomplished novel yet. There is a question at the heart of this novel . . . that captures the paradox of being human

* SLATE *

Her prose is splendidly alive, full of unexpected phrases and delicious cadences . . . like Pratchett, Thomas blends her flippancy and her philosophy perfectly. A fantastical family saga

* GUARDIAN *

What secrets are hiding in your family tree?

Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment . . .

A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers.

Les mer
The seductive new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, full of life, death, desire and family trees

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781847679222
Publisert
2016-04-21
Utgiver
Canongate Books
Vekt
258 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, PopCo, The End of Mr.Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.