Old Filth (Paperback)
| Author: Jane Gardam |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 1933372133
ISBN-13: 9781933372136
Sku: 202114455
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 1T
Pages:
289
Age Range:
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| Filth is a lawyer with a practice in the Far East. A few remember that his nickname stands for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. But Old Filth is not as pompous as people imagine, and his past contains many secrets and dark hiding places. |
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The recently widowed septuagenarian Sir Edward "Filth" Feathers seemingly lived a dutiful and dull life as a judge in British Hong Kong. (His nickname "Filth" is an acronym for Failed In London, Try Hong Kong.) But as, in fits and starts, Filth's childhood experiences flash through his weakening brain, the reader begin to realize the hidden traumas, passions, and secrets buried in the old man's mind. Abandoned by his drunken father at an early age, Filth was raised in Malaya by a loving girl, but at the age of four, he was shipped to England to live under the sadistic rule of a foster mother Ma Didds. Roused by his memories, Filth begins an expedition to find his foster sister Babbs, who has gone half-mad; along the way, the novel reveals the dark secret of how Filth and Babbs ended the tyranny of Ma Didds. Jane Gardam, two-time Whitbread winner and Man Booker finalist, has, in her 15th novel, created a masterpiece of character: a lost soul trapped beneath the wreckage of age and the stifling mores of the British Empire. The numerous and colorful people populating Filth's life are as rich, profound, and tragic as the old man himself.
The recently widowed septuagenarian Sir Edward "Filth" Feathers seemingly lived a dutiful and dull life as a judge in British Hong Kong. (His nickname "Filth" is an acronym for Failed In London, Try Hong Kong.) But as, in fits and starts, Filth's childhood experiences flash through his weakening brain, the reader begin to realize the hidden traumas, passions, and secrets buried in the old man's mind. Abandoned by his drunken father at an early age, Filth was raised in Malaya by a loving girl, but at the age of four, he was shipped to England to live under the sadistic rule of a foster mother Ma Didds. Roused by his memories, Filth begins an expedition to find his foster sister Babbs, who has gone half-mad; along the way, the novel reveals the dark secret of how Filth and Babbs ended the tyranny of Ma Didds. Jane Gardam, two-time Whitbread winner and Man Booker finalist, has, in her 15th novel, created a masterpiece of character: a lost soul trapped beneath the wreckage of age and the stifling mores of the British Empire. The numerous and colorful people populating Filth's life are as rich, profound, and tragic as the old man himself.
Author Bio
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam has written two Whitbread Award-winning novels, "The Hollow Land" and "The Queen of the Tambourine", as of 1998, the only writer to have done so. She has also won a host of other literary awards.
Praise
"The marvelously versatile [Jane] Gardam (FAITH FOX, 2003, etc.) dips into British imperial history for her extraordinary portrait of a Raj orphan....One of the finest achievements of this greatly talented British author."
4/15/2006
"[Jane] Gardam's novel is an anthology of...bittersweet scenes, rendered by a novelist at the very top of her form."
- Paul Gray
07/23/2006
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