Author: Eleanor Catton
Publisher: Granta
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781847084316
Rating: 
Click for latest prices
It is these devices that make us realize what Catton is attempting (and succeeds at): redefining the genre, kneading and tweaking it, and teasing us at the same time, while holding us in her thrall – in a ‘real’ novel written in Victorian England, the judge’s well-meant, hypocritical euphemisms would likely be used by the author himself.