num_pages: 176
description: The story of a life lived backwards in time. Its narrator, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. The novel was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.
language: English
title: Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence
titlecomplete: Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence
characters: Reverend Nicholas Kreditor, Odilo Unverdorben
genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, British Literature, Fiction, Holocaust, Contemporary
ratings_count: 15704
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Jonathan Cape