Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Scenes From Early Life

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of `King of the Badgers` and the Man Booker-shortlisted `The Northern Clemency`. “I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn`t be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the war alive.” One family`s life, and a nation – Bangladesh – are uniquely created through conversation, sacrifice, songs, bonds, blood, bravery and jokes. Narrated by a young boy born into a savage civil war, `Scenes from Early Life` is a heartbreaking, funny and gripping novel by one of our finest writers.

Related Products:

Songs Of Blood And Sword Flying the Nest: The Early Days of Britain`s Best-Loved Animals Life After Life The Half-Known Life Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes from My Life Scenes from Provincial Life Scenes of London Life: From `Sketches by Boz` Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans The Bangladesh Reader My Early Life The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi William Shakespeare: Scenes from the Life of the World`s Greatest Writer Behind the Scenes These Silent Mansions: A Life in Graveyards Things I`ve Been Silent About Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon`s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table The Life and Times of a Very British Man Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks – My Life In The Death Zone Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out The Silent Cry Amazing Facts About Baby Animals: An Illustrated Compendium Home: A Memoir of My Early Years Conversation in the Cathedral Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense Still Life: Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter Churchill: The Life: An authorised pictorial biography Warrior Herdsmen: Life with the Dodoth of Northern Uganda The Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes: Master Detective, Myth and Media Star A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field Mr Darley`s Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses The Story of a Life: Volumes 1-3 The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D`Oyly Carte family On the Road… with Kids: One Family`s Life-Changing Gap Year