The Giant, O'Brien

"The Giant, O'Brien" by Mantel, Hilary, published by Doubleday Canada. In her acclaimed novel, two-time Man Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel tells of the fated convergence of Ireland and England. ''A novelist without peer in her generation... No reader who loves fiction should miss this opportunity to read this extraordinary work.'' - San Francisco ChronicleLondon, 1782: centre of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it, all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in myths, fairies, miracles, and little people. He has come from Ireland to exhibit his size for money. O'Brien's opposite is a man of science, the famed anatomist John Hunter, who lusts after the Giant's corpse as a medical curiosity, a boon to the advancement of scientific knowledge.''Mantel's novel is in one sense a brilliant pastiche of Swift and Joyce [but] it becomes her own style, as acute and arresting as is her vision of history.'' - John Bayley, The New York Review of BooksAs belief wrestles knowledge and science wrestles song, so The Giant, O'Brien calls to us from a fork in the road as a tale of time, and a timeless tale; lyrical, shocking and spliced with black comedy. Book details: 208 pages, published 2013. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.