by Mark Haddon · RBA La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485351251
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«Un petit inconvenient» is the contemporary fiction novel by Mark Haddon, published by RBA La Magrana in paperback (432 pages, in Catalan).
George Hall, a discreet sixty-one-year-old man, hopes to enjoy retirement reading historical novels, listening to jazz and tending the garden; his daughter Katie announces a wedding that displeases the family, his mother finds a lover and he discovers a health problem that makes him fear the worst. Haddon narrates it with humor and bitterness.
Translation from English into Catalan by Montserrat Pratsoberrroca Pujol; the original work, «A Spot of Bother», was nominated for the Costa Book Award in 2006. Collection Otros La Magrana, no. 221.
Readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate ironic humor and portraits of family life.
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
