Any Human Face, Charles Lambert
Any Human Face, Charles Lambert
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Any Human Face

Author: Charles Lambert

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/24/2020


Synopsis

When Andrew—a second-hand-book dealer—comes across a pile of photographs from police archives, he decides to exhibit them. But then the gallery is raided the day before the opening, and the photos seized with surprising violence. It soon becomes clear that someone, somewhere, wants to keep the images hidden.

Who? Why? And who—in a world where kidnap, subterfuge and even murder are the norm, and where no one is safe or above suspicion—can Andrew turn to for help?

Contains mature themes.

About Charles Lambert

Charles Lambert is the author of several novels, short stories, and the memoir With a Zero at its Heart, which was voted one of the Guardian readers' Ten Best Books of the Year in 2014. In 2007, he won an O. Henry Award for his short story "The Scent of Cinnamon." His first novel, Little Monsters, was longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Born in England, Lambert has lived in central Italy since 1980.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on July 25, 2016

[I'm bringing back this review in support of author Charles Lambert's new novel A View from the Tower] Christopher Moore should write a gay James Bond. Or maybe I should. Film rights would be snapped up in a jiffy. Stick around, kids, I’m tossing out million-dollar ideas like condoms at a Pride P......more

Goodreads review by Garry on November 16, 2012

I feel a bit awkward about giving low ratings to books by Goodreads authors... sorry if anything I say offends. My opinion appears to definitely be a minority one, so perhaps you shouldn't pay too much attention to it :) Any Human Face opens with a line from Marilynne Robinson's The Gilead: Any human......more

Goodreads review by Essie on November 01, 2012

Very much enjoyed this complex and beautifully written book. Some reviews have called it an Italian gay thriller. Yes, it is...but it has far greater depths and understanding of the human state than that implies. Intricate murky worlds of crime, and some wonderful, almost Dickensian, grotesques revo......more

Goodreads review by Nasim Marie Jafry on July 29, 2012

For me, this was more about love and friendship than a thriller, though the mystery around the photographs is gripping. At first I found the time shifts a little dislocating, but once the threads weave themselves together and the narrative begins to gel I couldn't put it down. Charles Lambert's writ......more

Goodreads review by carelessdestiny on August 17, 2013

I read it all in one go, so perfect was the construction of the narrative and the unfolding of the characters over the decades. One of the main themes about the ubiquity, but at the same time, the curious power that visual images retain is impressively well done. And the portrait of the thoroughly n......more