Family And Friends

Anita Brookner

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English

Penguin
17 October 2016

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'Sofka gazes ahead, with her family's future before her...' Sofka Dorn, widowed matriarch of a prosperous German Jewish family living in England, rules her four children with an exacting hand. Frederick, the eldest son, is a disgracefully charming 'ladies' man, and like his flirtatious sister, Betty, is adored and indulged by his mother. Alfred and Mimi, both steady and solitary, are a disappointment to Sofka, who values strength and boldness of spirit. But, as their story unfolds, it becomes clear that the lives each must live and the times each must endure will change them in ways even Sofka could never have imagined.

By: Anita Brookner
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 138g
ISBN: 9780241977781
ISBN 10: 0241977789
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 17 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.

Reviews for Family And Friends

How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. -- Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life' * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 * Dazzling. * Spectator * Works so brilliantly. * Daily Telegraph * Brookner has a merciless comic gift. * Sunday Times *