September 2011 Debut of the Month.
This 1,030 page debut has got the Literary critics in the United States falling over themselves to praise it and it has already won the Indie Bookseller's Choice Awards and the NYPL's Young Lions Prize. It is the extraordinary story of a very different kind of leader... and the UK publisher Canongate has said of it 'Once in a very long time a book comes along that blows all your preconceptions of what a novel should be to pieces'. Discover the book for yourself today.
This is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Gurion has been expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies. He ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases at Aptakisic Junior High.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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This is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Gurion has been expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies.
The Instructions features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Hardback. Not Available.
The Instructions was written by Adam Levin and published by Canongate Books Ltd
