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Clay

The city is a strange place for Jozef. After living on a farm in Poland for much of his life, he is struggling to adjust to the tall, grey landscape of the big city. He spends his days cleaning apartments, his nights serving fast food; both jobs leave him lost and disconnected from the people around him. It is only when he encounters TC, a troubled eight-year-old boy running away from school, that Jozef finds a kindred spirit with whom he can share his love for the natural world. The pair are noticed in a little, litter-strewn city park by Sophia, seventy-eight and a half and still wearing her dear dead husband's shoes. She writes weekly letters to her granddaughter, Daisy, about the birds and wildflowers in the park, while Jozef attempts to extract, over games of chess, the details of TC's troubled home life--left broken by the departure of the boy's father. Like leaves twisting in the wind, the lives of these four figures are blown together, defying the gravity affecting the world around them--until the pressures of modern life intervene.

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  • "The city is a strange place for Jozef. After living on a farm in Poland for much of his life, he is struggling to adjust to the tall, grey landscape of the big city. He spends his days cleaning apartments, his nights serving fast food; both jobs leave him lost and disconnected from the people around him. It is only when he encounters TC, a troubled eight-year-old boy running away from school, that Jozef finds a kindred spirit with whom he can share his love for the natural world. The pair are noticed in a little, litter-strewn city park by Sophia, seventy-eight and a half and still wearing her dear dead husband's shoes. She writes weekly letters to her granddaughter, Daisy, about the birds and wildflowers in the park, while Jozef attempts to extract, over games of chess, the details of TC's troubled home life--left broken by the departure of the boy's father. Like leaves twisting in the wind, the lives of these four figures are blown together, defying the gravity affecting the world around them--until the pressures of modern life intervene."@en
  • "Struggling to adjust to the city after moving from a Polish village, Jozef bonds with a runaway student over games of chess and is observed by a widow who writes letters to her granddaughter in the hopes of sparking the girl's interest in nature."@en
  • "Struggling to adjust to the city after moving from a Polish village, Jozef bonds with a runaway student over games of chess and is observed by a widow who writes letters to her granddaughter in the hopes of sparking the girl's interest in nature."
  • "A boy creeps down from a high-rise block in the half-light of dawn to see the neat prints left by a fox on the frosty grass. He is TC, eight years old and skipping school to spend his time exploring the city's waste ground and long-forgotten wild corners. At school and at home he is barely missed. Sophia, seventy-eight and a half and still wearing her dear dead husband's shoes, looks out through her kitchen window at the little city park outside her flat, its grassy acres grimy and litter-blown, but to her eyes beautiful. She is writing her weekly letter to her granddaughter Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world to that of TC, even though they live less than a mile apart. Jozef spends his days clearing houses and works night shifts at the local takeaway, but he is unable to forget the farm he left behind in Poland, the woods and fields he grew up with still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC in the little park one night he finds a kindred spirit, despite the forty years between them: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost. A lyrical debut novel about innocence and experience, class and consumerism, Clay captures the delicate balance of life in the city, between young and old, between nature and development, between recklessness and caution."@en
  • "In een grote stad in Engeland ligt een parkje tussen de huizen ingeklemd. Het speelt een bijzondere rol in de levens van drie heel verschillende mensen."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "General fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Clay"
  • "Clay"@en
  • "Clay a novel"
  • "Clay : a novel"@en

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