by Kate Atkinson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727310821
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«Cróquete Humano» is Kate Atkinson's novel, published by Planeta Editora in paperback (326 pages, in Portuguese).
Isobel Fairfax grows up in Lythe, an English suburb of the 1960s that was an Elizabethan fiefdom with a connection to William Shakespeare. As she investigates her family's and town's history, she experiences strange leaps in time and uncovers secrets about her missing mother and her war-hero father. Tale, mystery and coming-of-age novel with magical realism.
Novel translated from English by Carmo Vasconcelos Romão; originally published as «Human Croquet» in 1997.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction, mystery and magical realism, as well as for fans of Kate Atkinson.
Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
