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Hired Man, Paperback by Forna, Aminatta, ISBN 0802121926, ISBN-13 9780802121929, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A British woman and her two children move into a small Croatian village after the War of Independence and befriend a local handyman who helps shield them from the locals' hostilities towards strangers. 20,000 first printing.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802121926

ISBN-139780802121929

eBay Product ID (ePID)202494272

Product Key Features

Book TitleHired Man

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary

Publication Year2014

GenreFiction

AuthorNot Available

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.92

Synopsis"Forna is a born storyteller. . . . Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are often invisible to all but its participants. . . . Gorgeous."--John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Haunting . . . Detail builds upon detail until the dread and violence that have been barely restrained burst into the open."--Anthony Domestico, San Francisco Chronicle An NPR, Boston Globe , and San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year, The Hired Man --now available in paperback--is an incisive, powerful novel of a small Croatian town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders. Duro Kolak, a stoic lifelong resident of the Croatian village of Gost, is off on a morning's hunt when he discovers that a British family has taken up residence in a house Duro knows well. He offers his assistance getting their water working again, and soon he is at the house every day, helping get it ready as their summer cottage, and serving as their trusted confidant. But the other residents of Gost are not as pleased to have the interlopers, and as the friendship deepens, the volatile truths about the town's past and the house's former occupants whisper ever louder. A masterpiece of storytelling haunted by lost love and a restrained menace, The Hired Man confirms Aminatta Forna as one of our most important writers. "Forna modulates the growing suspense with exquisite skill. . . . Beautiful, reminiscent in its mesmerizing clarity of William Trevor's fiction or Per Petterson's."--Anna Mundow, The Christian Science Monitor "Absorbing . . . Forna's unwavering gaze compels a close look at the complexities of our shared histories."--Ellah Allfrey, NPR (online)