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"A novel on three generations of Scottish men. They are an idealistic civil servant who created affordable housing in Glasgow, his good-for-nothing son, and the sensitive grandson, a journalist who stays with him as he dies."@en
"A novel on three generations of Scottish men. They are an idealistic civil servant who created affordable housing in Glasgow, his good-for-nothing son, and the sensitive grandson, a journalist who stays with him as he dies."
"Een jonge Schot kijkt door de relatie met zijn vader en grootvader terug op de geschiedenis en sociaal-economische situatie van zijn land."
"Andrew O'Hagan's debut novel addresses the collision of the old Scotland of municipal socialism with the new, as perceived by a grandfather who was an ambitious, but misguided social improver. Curiously the novel has a Scottish Catholic feel to it."@en
"Hugh Provan was a Modernist hero. A dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people, he led Scotland's towerblock programme after the war. Now he lies on a bed on the eighteenth floor. The times have changed. His flats are coming down. The idealism he learned from his mother is gone. And even as his breath goes out he clings to the old ways. His wife sings her Scots ballads to soothe him, yet his final monthsare plagued by memory and loss, by a bitter sense of his family and his country, who could not live up to the houses he built for them. Meanwhile the corruption hearings bring their hammer down on the past."
"Jamie a 10 ans lorsqu'il décide de ne plus supporter son père violent et alcoolique et sa mère victime de cet homme "qu'elle a dans la peau". Il fugue chez ses grands-parents paternels qu'il connait peu mais qui l'accueillent à bras ouverts. Là, Jamie va découvrir la personnalité de son grand-père Hugh, homme du peuple, bâtisseur idéaliste des cités ouvrières des années 50, mais aussi père catastrophique incapable d'aimer un fils qui l'a déçu..."
"Hugh Provan was a Modernist hero. A dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people, he led Scotland's towerblock programme after the war. Now he lies on a bed on the eighteenth floor. The times have changed. His flats are coming down. The idealism he learned from his mother is gone. And even as his breath goes out he clings to the old ways. His wife sings her Scots ballads to soothe him, yet his final months are plagued by memory and loss, by a bitter sense of his family and his country, who could not live up to the houses he built for them. Meanwhile the corruption hearings bring their hammer down on the past. Hugh's grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor. The old man's final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the land that bred him. He tells the story of his own family - a tale of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old Left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses, of three men in search of Utopia. Andrew O'Hagan has written a story which is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear sighted gaze at our relationship with history, personal and public."@en

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"Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"
"Belletristische Darstellung"@en
"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Electronic books"@en
"English fiction"
"Romans (teksten)"
"Roman écossais"
"Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)"@en
"Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
"Domestic fiction"@en
"Domestic fiction"
"Anglické romány"

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"Padres nuestros"
"Le crépuscule des pères"
"Ai nostri padri"
"Ai nostri padri"@it
"Onze vaders"
"Dunkles Herz : Roman"
"Our Fathers"@en
"Our fathers : a novel"@en
"Våra fäders hus : roman"
"Våra fäders hus : roman"@sv
"Lähempänä taivasta"@fi
"Dunkles Herz Roman"
"Sin fars sønn"
"Our fathers"
"Our fathers"@en
"Nuestros padres"@es
"Oi pateres mas : mythistórēma"
"Naši otcové"

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