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The Next Big Thing
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977842
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $39.99

The Next Big Thing

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1 Sept 2016
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12 Dec 2013
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Longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker, and from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

'This would soon be a new day, all too closely resembling the others, the normal days of his present existence, in which nothing happened nor could be expected to happen'

At seventy-three Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with his final years. Questions and misunderstandings haunt Herz like old ghosts. Should he travel, sell his flat, or propose marriage to an old friend he has not seen in thirty years? Herz believes that he must do something, only he doesn't know what this next big thing in life should be . . .
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977842
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
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Praise for The Next Big Thing

Impressive. Beautifully written with flashes of charm and wisdom

Sunday Times

Infinitely moving

Literary Review

Beautifully written, it draws you in and holds you fast

Daily Mail

Brookner has no rivals when it comes to anatomizing complex emotions. Without question, an exceptional piece of writing.

Sunday Telegraph

Brookner is a brilliant writer, her prose near perfect, and she captures extremely poignantly the loneliness, the anxieties, the insecurity of old age.

Sunday Independent

Brookner is a great novelist

Evening Standard