Camilla Gibb

W pierwszej klasie, gdy dostałam nowiuteńki zeszyt, aby w nim zapisywać coś, co nosiło tytuł ?Moja autobiografia?, napisałam zgodnie z bezwzględną pewnością zbiorowej narracji: ?Urodziłam się sina i martwa. Urodziłam się w Anglii?, jakbym zakładała, że miejsce urodzenia determinuje stan, w jakim zaczynamy egzystować. Z tego, co opowiada moja matka,...

Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibbs stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, weaned in Corsica, freed from nappies in Sicily and walking by the time [they] got to the Algarve The familys nomadic adventure ends in Tangier when Lillys...

The history of Vietnam lies in this bowl, for it is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese heart, that pho was born, a combination of the rice noodles that predominated after a thousand years of Chinese occupation and the taste for beef the Vietnamese acquired under the French, who turned their cows away from ploughs and into bifteck and pot-au-feu. The name of...

With her second novel, The Petty Details of So-and-sos Life, award-winning and celebrated author Camilla Gibb probes the bruises of family with humanity, hilarity, and a keen eye for the grotesque to deliver one of the most anticipated books of the year.A startling and ambitious novel, as funny as it is poignant, The Petty Details of So-and-sos...