Sex and Stravinsky

Sex and Stravinsky

Published

January 2010

Publishers

UK
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury
Estonia
Eesti Raamat
Spain
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Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband and twelve year old daughter. Josh has bizarre origins in a small South African mining town, but now teaches mime in Bristol. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for ballet lessons; a thing her mother emphatically denies her.

Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie Thomas, Josh's first love, is desperately trying to reclaim her life from the forceful presence of her husband and children. They've just taken in a enigmatic and beautiful boarder Jack/Jacques/Giacomo. He claims his origins are European, but actually they are much closer to home - having journeyed via Mozambique and Senegal to Milan, he now finds himself right back where he started.

From north and south, far and wide, the players are all drawn together. In this long-anticipated new novel, the inimitable Trapido offers up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world, while binding personal stories together in a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.