num_pages: 260
description: Sir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge, living out his last days in comfortable seclusion in Dorset. The engrossing and moving account of his life, from birth in colonial Malaya, to Wales, where he is sent as a "Raj orphan," to Oxford, his career and marriage, parallels much of the 20th century's torrid and twisted history. Old Filth was nominated for the 2005 Orange Prize.
language: English
title: Old Filth
titlecomplete: Old Filth
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, British Literature, Book Club, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 17757
places: Hong Kong, England, Dorset, England, Malaysia, Malay Peninsula
series: Old Filth
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Europese Literatuurprijs
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Limited