The Bone Clocks Banana Yoshimoto Longlisted for the 2013 Frank

Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award

and authority by one of our best historians

Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there

and the rich learning potential of talk between teachers and children

The Bone Clocks Banana Yoshimoto Longlisted for the 2013 FrankRun away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict. Over six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. And as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival . . .