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And then the night when my life began again A strange beginning. Soldiers, bright lights. The cold. And me being lifted, as if by surgeons, into a new world It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight year-old boy is removed from his home in the middle of the night. He soon learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary political experiment. A vision, a fable, a satire, a love story, a ghost story, Divided Kingdom is a remarkable, genre-defying novel and it confirms Rupert Thomson as that rare thing - a writer of sublime prose who also has a mesmerising tale to tell.
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Following" The Book of Revelation--"a premise made terrifyingly real by a hugely talented writer," wrote "The New York Times Book Review--Rupert Thomson now explores a radical social experiment in a novel both politically provocative and personally mesmerizing.
One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Perry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. The powers that be--reacting to their country's inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence--establish in its place four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each, and reinforce these new partitions with concrete barricades and razor wire. Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely and travels illegally throughout a realm now utterly divided, his life in constant jeopardy. And by witnessing the best and worst and strangest of what society and human nature can offer, he begins to understand how little he knows of his true self or the desires and needs that define satisfaction and happiness for everyone.
A highly realistic portrait of a world that doesn't exist, but which bears odd, unsettling resemblances to our own, this is fiction of supreme originality and accomplishment.
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One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Perry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. The powers that be--reacting to their country's inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence--establish in its place four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each, and reinforce these new partitions with concrete barricades and razor wire. Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely and travels illegally throughout a realm now utterly divided, his life in constant jeopardy. And by witnessing the best and worst and strangest of what society and human nature can offer, he begins to understand how little he knows of his true self or the desires and needs that define satisfaction and happiness for everyone.
A highly realistic portrait of a world that doesn't exist, but which bears odd, unsettling resemblances to our own, this is fiction of supreme originality and accomplishment.
Rupert Thomson is the author of seven novels. His books have been shortlisted for awards including the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize for Air and Fire and the Guardian Prize for Fiction. He lives in Barcelona.
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- PublisherBloomsbury
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0747572186
- ISBN 13 9780747572183
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