Our Fathers
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From the author of the incredible debut novel, Be Near Me. Finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Whitbread Award.
Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a visionary urban planner, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after the Second World War. But times have changed. Now, as he lies dying in one of his own failed buildings, his grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him. The old man's final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the land that bred him.
It is Jamie who tells the story of his family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of political idealism. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses, of three men in search of Utopia. A poignant and powerful reclamation of the past, Our Fathers is a deeply felt, beautifully crafted, utterly unforgettable novel.
About this Author
ANDREW O'HAGAN was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and he won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reviews
"A beautiful, elegiac work . . . required reading for everybody."
-- Ian Rankin, Evening Standard (UK)
"O'Hagan offers a deeply moving meditation on losses, both personal and historical, and on the tide of time through generations."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"A timely corrective to the idea that nothing profound can be said about now."
-- Will Self, Observer (UK)
"The most auspicious debut by a British writer for some time."
-- The Independent (UK)
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