An Island in Time

An Island in Time The Biography of a Village

2010 Edition

Paperback (02 Sep 2010)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. 330 and falling). It's a typical European village where the shops are closing down, the few children left will escape to a less arduous life in the city and it's becoming increasingly isolated. Jowert has more in common with an English village than with Amsterdam, and it's moving story of neighbours and their efforts to preserve their long established way of life is relevant to the changing face of the countryside everywhere in Europe.

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Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099546863
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
Edition: 2010 Edition
DEWEY: 949.21307
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 281
Weight: 222g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 17mm