Wake Up
06.2012 г. · A&C Black
Електронна книга
240
Страници
reportОценките и отзивите не са потвърдени Научете повече
Всичко за тази електронна книга
'Early nineteenth-century France had Balzac, we have Tim Pears' The Times
For John, a potato isn't just a staple food, it's also something wondrous, the secret of his success and the key to the future. With his brother, Greg, he has turned his father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest dealer in potatoes. Now he wants to change the world by introducing, through potatoes, edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an edible alternative to injections.
But as John spins round and round the ring road avoiding his turn off to work he has to figure out how to tell his brother that deep in the Venezuelan jungle, volunteers have died during the latest illegal trials. Deaths that they have to find some way to hide. Wake Up is a book about our times, and how we are hurtling, almost silently, into a new age with implications that are unfathomable. Funny, fluent, and provocative it is a major new novel from one of our finest contemporary writers.
For John, a potato isn't just a staple food, it's also something wondrous, the secret of his success and the key to the future. With his brother, Greg, he has turned his father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest dealer in potatoes. Now he wants to change the world by introducing, through potatoes, edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an edible alternative to injections.
But as John spins round and round the ring road avoiding his turn off to work he has to figure out how to tell his brother that deep in the Venezuelan jungle, volunteers have died during the latest illegal trials. Deaths that they have to find some way to hide. Wake Up is a book about our times, and how we are hurtling, almost silently, into a new age with implications that are unfathomable. Funny, fluent, and provocative it is a major new novel from one of our finest contemporary writers.
За автора
Tim Pears is the author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Award), In a Land of Plenty (adapted into a major BBC TV series in 2001) and A Revolution of the Sun. He lives in Oxford with his wife and children.
Оценете тази електронна книга
Кажете ни какво мислите.
Информация за четенето
Смартфони и таблети
Инсталирайте приложението Google Play Книги за Android и iPad/iPhone. То автоматично се синхронизира с профила ви и ви позволява да четете онлайн или офлайн, където и да сте.
Лаптопи и компютри
Можете да слушате закупените от Google Play аудиокниги посредством уеб браузъра на компютъра си.
Електронни четци и други устройства
За да четете на устройства с електронно мастило, като например електронните четци от Kobo, трябва да изтеглите файл и да го прехвърлите на устройството си. Изпълнете подробните инструкции в Помощния център, за да прехвърлите файловете в поддържаните електронни четци.
