Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance

Lloyd Jones is the author of ten novels, and is the winner of the Commonwealth Prize, the Montana Medal and the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize among others. In 2007, his first book to be published in the UK, Mister Pip, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance was shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Award. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Title: Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance

Author: Jones, Lloyd

ISBN: 9780719524035

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Publisher: John Murray Press

Publication Date: 2008-04-03

Number of Pages: 272

Weight: 0.1996 kg

The details of this wild and lonely setting are wonderfully conveyed, and the whole episode . . . has the same magical surreal quality as Matilda's flights of fancy in 'Mister Pip' * The Times *
Jones -- author of Mister Pip -- braids these two wistful affairs into an affecting meditation of family, duty and the awkward catchment of love * Financial Times *
'It sounds so light-hearted - a story about dance and love - and yet it is also so ineffably sad, just like the tango itself, heartbreaking and exhilarating. In fact, Jones has solved something that's notoriously difficult: how to write about music so that the words themselves express its character . . . a skillfully constructed book, gracefully traversing huge distances in time and geography, as well as character. It's very rich, but never hard work.' * New Zealand Herald *
'Much like a tango, this novel goes forward and backwards in stops and starts, is sensual,has passion and tells a story of love' * Shropshire Star *