Publisher: New York: Picador, 2012
Annotation:
Told over the course of a single Saturday in Sydney, Five Bells weaves together the stories of four characters -- country girl Ellie, who is new to the city, her childhood friend, the heavily medicated James, Dublin native Catherine and Pei Xing, whose family fled China's Cultural Revolution -- all of them dealing with personal sorrows and secret guilt.
Library Journal praises the book's "deliberate pacing and introspective style," saying "this is a book for contemplative readers willing to lose themselves in the characters' journeys between present and past".
For more information:
- Picador (publisher)
- The Guardian
- Goodreads
