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The Winner of the 1999 Award is INGENIOUS PAIN by English writer Andrew Miller. In a statement the judging panel said: |
"... Ingenious Pain creates a fully imagined narrative world teeming with characters who dramatise the sensuality of the age ... Ingenious Pain is a persuasive literary achievement. " |
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Andrew
Miller Ingenious Pain ISBN: 0340682086 (UK); 0151002584 (USA) Nominated by: Deichmanske Bibliothek, Norway; State Library of South Australia; Bibliotheque Municipale de Tours, France. Ingenious Pain tells of the rise, fall and redemption of an extraordinary man, whose lack of compassion is physical: he is unable to feel pain. Born in the West Country, in the mid-eighteenth century, at the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer grows up to become a brilliant surgeon. The novels takes us from England, through Europe, across to Russia, as Dyer travels to St. Petersburg: en route, he meets a witch-like woman, who proves both his nemesis and saviour. At one level an exciting adventure story, Ingenious Pain is also a novel of ideas, packed with detail, with a wonderful sense of period. |
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Andrew Miller was born in Bristol, England, in 1960. He currently lives in Paris. |
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