Hollinghurst, Alan
9780593243084, 0593243080
Trade Paperback
 
A Best Book of the Year for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and many others

“One of the best novelists at work today.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Our Evenings is that rare bird: a muscular work of ideas and an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language.”—The New York Times Book Review

Dave Win, the son of a British dressmaker and a Burmese man he’s never met, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.

Our Evenings follows Dave from the 1960s on — as a brown-skinned schoolboy and student in decidedly white institutions; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected happiness, even as the political climate turns darker and more violent.

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, Our Evenings sweeps readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life.