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All the Beautiful Liars
Told in a thrillingly inventive narrative style, Sylvia Petter's debut novel is a powerful, pacy tale about making peace with the past, which also paints a richly evocative picture of Central Europe in the early decades after the war.
Book Details
- Publisher: Lightning Books
- Publish Date: Jan 11st, 2021
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.10in - 0.90in - 0.57lb
- EAN: 9781785632174
- Categories: • Literary• Family Life - General• Historical - 20th Century - World War II & Holocaust
About the Author
Sylvia Petter was born in Vienna but grew up in Australia, which makes her Austr(al)ian. She started writing fiction in 1993 and has published three story collections, The Past Present, Back Burning, and Mercury Blobs. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of New South Wales. After living for 25 years in the Geneva area, where she was a founding member of the Geneva Writers' Group, she now lives in Vienna once more.
Praise for this book
'A stylistically daring, hurricane-paced and genuinely impressive feat of the imagination' - Billy O'Callaghan
'Sylvia Petter's astonishing novel, twenty-five years in the making, is a profoundly meaningful investigation of the hinterland of one family's complex and troubled history. All the Beautiful Liars will remain current so long as memory and truth conflict' - Yorkshire Times
'A mosaic primarily made of a family memoir, with its mesh of relationships, past and present, the unravelling of decades-old secrets from a Europe that includes Nazi Germany, paced like a thriller, and an engaging evocation of the nuances of reaching adulthood. The melding of these diverse elements ensures a compelling read' - Meg Stewart
'An original, moving and deft read. Fast-paced and intriguing, delving into history and the allegiances and the knottiness of families. A novel that lingers and stirs' - Catherine McNamara