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Lies of Silence

PaperbackPaperback
Ranking67in
CHF18.50

Description

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-999810-5
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publishing date19/11/1992
Edition6. A.
Pages208 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 13 mm
Weight149 g
Article no.1914385
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.6489036
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Author

Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Five of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999.

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