num_pages: 448
description: Three families across two centuries. A shared history of love and murder.And one woman’s passion for life and obsession with death. . .Expatriate Claire Fleetwood is a forensic photographer adept at turning the bones of the dead into silvery, telling shadows. When she inherits an estate situated in London’s East End, Claire finally feels rooted. Then one morning a friend is murdered beyond the walls of her garden--a crime that unnerves her, intrigues her, and compels her to unravel not only the mysteries of the victim’s past but her own past as well. It’s a journey that takes Claire to the India of her forebears, to a hidden paradise between Bhutan and Tibet, and to a secret history that reverberates through time, through blood, through a lineage of forbidden pleasures and harrowing implications.A sensuous and revealing thriller like no other, Fish, Blood and Bone is an intoxicating reflection on the consequences of the past, of unearthed skeletons and family sins, played out against the most exotic landscapes on earth—and the most unsettling corners of the imagination.
language: English
title: Fish, Blood and Bone: A Novel
titlecomplete: Fish, Blood and Bone: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, India, Literature, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 218
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Random House Publishing Group