Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [x], 436, [2]. Pictorial card wraps. No hardcover edition issued.
Signed to title-page in a contemporary signature that pre-dates the author's present curlicues and flourishes.
Author's debut novel. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/ John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Named by Granta as one of twenty "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2003. A series of nine, globe-spanning, ingeniously linked narratives. "[A] dazzling piece of work." –The Washington Post