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"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."—The Guardian"Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to watch."—Los Angeles Times"A knockout... a fresh and immaculately paced study of the process by which old information becomes new, and one of the bravest and best-written memoirs I have read." -The TelegraphA powerful and unexpected memoir from the author of the best-selling Man Booker Prize–shortlisted Mister Pip.As the New Zealand city of Christchurch lies in ruins after the catastrophic earthquake of February 2011, Lloyd Jones begins a search for his past, a search that takes him through childhood memories of puzzling events to Pembroke Dock in Wales, and finally to the discovery of a devastating court transcript.
