{"product_id":"ancestry-hardcover-1","title":"Ancestry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Mawer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Room\u003c\/i\u003e brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts through evidence like an archaeologist, piecing together the stories of his ancestors. Illiterate and lacking opportunity in the bleak Suffolk village where his parents worked as agricultural laborers, Abraham leaves home at fifteen, in 1847. He signs away the next five years in an indenture aboard a ship, which will circuitously lead him to London and well beyond, to far-flung ports on the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In London he crosses paths with Naomi Lulham, a young seamstress likewise seeking a better life in the city, with all its prospects and temptations.\u003cbr\u003e Another branch of the family tree comes together in 1847, in Manchester, as soldier George Mawer weds his Irish bride Ann Scanlon--Annie--before embarking with his regiment. When he is called to fight in the Crimean War, Annie must fend for herself and her children on a meager income, navigating an often hostile world as a woman alone.\u003cbr\u003e With a keen eye and a nuanced consideration of the limits of what we can know about the past, Mawer paints a compelling, intimate portrait of life in the nineteenth century.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Mawer\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1948 in England. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eChimera\u003c\/i\u003e, won the McKitterick Prize for first novels. \u003ci\u003eMendel's Dwarf\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book to be published in the United States, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book to Remember. He is the author of the Booker short-listed \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Room\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2009), \u003ci\u003eTrapeze \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2012)\u003ci\u003e, Tightrope \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2015)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Prague Spring \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252845560057,"sku":"9781635423198","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cklTU2xydGRUbVRYUkFFNmZaVlNsQT09_b13a79d1-8875-4f0b-8a66-d1029d233cd0.webp?v=1768693658","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ancestry-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}