Hand Me Down World
  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781921758799
  • Imprint: Text
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352

Hand Me Down World

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29 Aug 2011
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25 Oct 2010
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3 Sep 2011
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Hand Me Down World is a brilliant, haunting novel from the author of the award-winning Mister Pip.

A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers— some generous, some exploiting—to guide her passage north.
These strangers tell of their encounters with a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat—each account a different view of the truth, a different truth. And slowly these fragments of a life piece together to create a spellbinding story of the courage of a mother and the versions of truth we create to accommodate our lives.
Haunting and beautiful, Hand Me Down World is simply unforgettable.
  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781921758799
  • Imprint: Text
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Lloyd Jones

Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand's best known contemporary writers. He has published essays and children's books, his distinctive works including the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife, Hand Me Down World, The Cage, The Fish, and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers' Prize. Mister Pip was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007.

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Also by Lloyd Jones

A History of Silence: A Memoir (NZ Ed)
The Book of Fame
Mister Pip
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
The Fish
Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom
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Praise for Hand Me Down World

'New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones is a master storyteller ... All Jones's storytelling skills are in full view in his new novel Hand Me Down World.' Weekend Australian

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'Lloyd Jones's Hand Me Down World is a rich and subtle exploration of a refugee experience; it asks great questions about the nature of both longing and belonging.' The Age

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'It would be difficult to think of another novelist quite as original or fearless as 55-year-old New Zealand author Lloyd jones. A writer of truly international sensibility ... Lloyd Jones's novel is freshly minted, unsettling and unsentimental.' The Monthly

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'It is an original; a story gracefully told from the inside out and back to the front, one that will challenge and surprise.' Australian Women's Weekly

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'Jones is a daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today.' The Guardian

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'Humane and moving, it's a worthy successor to Jones's last novel, the Booker-shortlisted Mister Pip.' Daily Mail

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