num_pages: 445
description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel ( The New York Times Book Review ) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain.As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife—their fates become inextricably connected.
language: English
title: Arthur & George
titlecomplete: Arthur & George
characters: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, British Literature, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 17915
places: England, Edinburgh, Scotland, Midlands, England, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, Scotland, West Midlands, England, Birmingham, England
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Vintage International