ENGLEBY

- Title: Engleby
- Author: Sebastian Faulks
- Genre: Fiction
- Type: Paperback (352 pages)
- Price: RM15.00
- Condition: Good, unread
- Status: Available

About the book:

When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mysetery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, the ready has to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth?

Engleby can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it failed. It is also a poignant account of the frailty of human consciousness.

Sebastian Faulk's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the deepest shade of black.

Reviews:

'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times

'A novelist with muscle, with affinities to the great Europeans' The Times

'The best novelist of his generation' Scotsman