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Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew, The

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The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew

by Jake Wallis Simons

ISBN: 9781904598374
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
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‘Here is a new young voice in British fiction – entertaining, provocative and original. Jake Wallis Simons will surely prove a name to remember.’ – Beryl Bainbridge

‘Simons has to be the most exciting new writer to appear this year’ – Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, The Independent on Sunday

What would it be like to live – literally – into your own family’s past? What would it be like to watch everyone around you slowly getting younger? What would it be like to be a Tibetan Jew?

The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew is a startlingly original tragicomedy based around a fictional Tibeto-Jewish refugee community in London, peopled with a variety of absurd yet always human characters, from an old, silent grandfather who communicates only via a typewriter to a half-Tibetan chain smoker, to a skinny brothel mistress, to a charismatic Tibetan ‘rabbi’ who declares himself to be the reincarnation of Moses. This world provides a rich and thought-provoking backdrop for an investigation into culture, heritage and identity that will make you swing between vigorous chuckles and troubled chin-stroking.

Jake Wallis Simons is a novelist, journalist and graphic artist. His acclaimed first novel, The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew, was named by the Independent on Sunday as a Book of the Year. Jake writes features for the Times, the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, the Telegraph, La Repubblica and other publications, and his work has been featured in The Week magazine. He is a contributor to BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. Born in London in 1978, Jake was awarded a first-class degree in English from St Peter’s College, Oxford, before undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Before going to Oxford he spent two years in Taiwan where he developed a fascination with Buddhism. Jake is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, and Practitioner-in-Residence at Bournemouth University. He lives with his family in Winchester. Find out more about Jake and his work at his website www.jakewallissimons.com.

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