A Clock Without Hands
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: October 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780345446572
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Novel; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: Altesa is in the rain, the rain starts as the bus rumbles down from the head of the valley towards the coast, fat drops spattering on the window against which I rest my face, and it is still falling when the bus pulls away, tyres hissing on the slick flagstones, leaving me standing on the north side of the square.