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The peoples act of love by james meek paperback 9781786894014 published by canongate 20 june 2019. Amazingly, for a novel that touches on among other things a sect of castrates, a premediated act of cannibalism, and the motivations of a revolutionary bombthrower, its tone is restrained, precise, lucid. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Newsweek magazine named it one of the top ten works of fiction of the 2000s. The peoples act of love by james meek used very good. I remain convinced that the peoples act of love is a truly great novel. Jul 03, 2005 the peoples act of love by james meek canongate. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the people s act of love. It was translated into more than twenty languages and earned a number of awards and a nomination for the booker prize. James meek, raised in dundee, was for a number of years a foreign correspondent in moscow and more recently covered the iraq war and guantanamo bay. This powerfully realised novel takes place in 1919 in yasyk, a little town on the yenisey river, about as far north as civilised life can be sustained, on the margin of the vast siberian hinterland of reindeerherders and the prison camps.

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