Uncle Rudolf
by Paul Bailey
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The haunting new novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize. At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a child. Vivid, often hilarious, stories of Rudolf's brilliant but blighted singing career are intertwined with the slow unfolding of secrets that have shadowed Andrew's otherwise happy life. Told in matchless prose, this deeply moving novel show more captures a vanished epoch with exquisite tact and restraint. show lessTags
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For a review please see my blog:
http://theidlewoman.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/uncle-rudolf-paul-bailey.html
http://theidlewoman.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/uncle-rudolf-paul-bailey.html
Romanian translation. A present from the author.
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Paul Bailey has been the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award, & the George Orwell Memorial Prize. He is the author of six novels, including "Old Soldiers" & "Gabriel's Lament", both short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- 2002
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- English
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