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In his 80th year, 'Britain's best living travel writer' journeys along the 3000-mile river that divides China and Russia (Sunday Times) A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1,100 miles it forms the tense border between Russia and China.
The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today.
There is something raw in the fault lines, something wilder and more mysterious. There is beauty in the falling apart, a less polished, more honest version of expression.
PRAISE FOR THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS: 'A really thought-provoking novel' Reese Witherspoon 'An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory' _______________________