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001 2015045986
003 DLC
005 20151215084101.0
008 151214s2016 cau 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015045986
020 $a9781593766467 (hardcover)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6120.H66$bS44 2016
082 00 $a823/.92$223
084 $aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aThomas, Scarlett,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe seed collectors :$ba novel /$cScarlett Thomas.
263 $a1605
264 1 $aBerkeley :$bSoft Skull Press,$c[2016]
300 $apages ; cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love. A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Eliot's Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a 'treasurehouse of detail' revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human. "--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aInheritance and succession$vFiction.
650 0 $aDysfunctional families$vFiction.
655 0 $aDomestic fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh