Ergebnis für "The Appointment" in Familienleben

The writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald,” makes his Penguin Classics debut with this beautiful deluxe edition of his best-loved book. One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is...

A deeply moving contemporary literary novel about illness, grief, invisible labour, migration, dignity and the long wait to be properly seen. Abdul Matin Choudhury has spent much of his life cleaning the rooms other people pass through: school corridors, hospital wards, staff toilets, waiting areas, floors polished before anyone arrives and dirt cleared before anyone notices. His work has always been quiet, necessary and almost invisible. On a wet Tuesday morning in York, Abdul goes to hospital for what he tells himself is only an appointment.

Excitement is running high in the Adams family. Mr Finch, after a long career in secret government work, is to be knighted - which means that Chinese Lady will become a real 'Lady'! What with having to find a new outfit suitable for the occasion, and worrying about whether she'll have to curtsey to the king, the redoubtable matriarch of the Adams family scarcely knows if she's coming or going.