The Children Of Men

Author: P. D. James

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Price : 19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780571253418
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Imprint : Faber & Faber
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Weight (g) : 0.28
Publication date : 01 January 2010
Dimensions : 198mm X 126mm X 22mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 19.99
Availability date : 01 August 2010
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Product Type : books

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Author : P. D. James
Bind : Paperback
Edition : Main
Pages : 342
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Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, plots this atmospheric and disturbing novel in the year 2021. Children of Men is a brilliant mystery possessing all of the qualities which distinguish P.D. James as a novelist. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably, as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. PD James is the world's pre-eminent crime writer, most famous for her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries and for her bestselling titles Death Comes to Pemberley and The Murder Room. Children of Men was adapted into a hit film in 2006, directed by Alfonso Cuarón the film starred Clive Owen, Michael Caine and Julianne Moore.

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