Chris Cleave
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born
May 14, 1973
gender
male
place of birth
London, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Cormac McCarthy, Will Self, Alexei Sayle, Tibor Fischer, Howard Jacobson, and Michel Houellebecq
about this author
Chris Cleave is a novelist and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London.
His debut novel Incendiary was an international bestseller published in 20 countries to critical acclaim. It will be released in 2008 as a major motion picture, starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. A controversial open letter to Osama bin Laden, Incendiary gained notoriety for the macabre coincidence of its UK publication on 7th July 2005, the day of the London terrorist bombings.
Inspired by his early childhood in West Africa and by an accidental visit to a British concentration camp, The Other Hand is Cleave's second novel.
Chris Cleave is 35 years old. He has been a barman, a long-distance sailor, a teacher of marine...more
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Little Bee by Chris Cleave avg rating 3.84 — 1,734 ratings — published 2009 7 editions |
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The Other Hand by Chris Cleave avg rating 3.59 — 282 ratings — published 2008 7 editions |
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Incendiary by Chris Cleave avg rating 3.58 — 156 ratings — published 2005 15 editions |
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Sea Stories by Desmond Barry, Chris Cleave, Margaret Elphinstone, Niall Griffiths, Tessa Hadley, Roger Hubank, Charles Lambert (Goodreads author) , Sam Llewellyn more... avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2007 |
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Incendiary by Chris Cleave avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005 |
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Little Bee: A Novel by Chris Cleave avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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Incendiary by Chris Cleave avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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The Other Hand by Chris Cleave avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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"I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. "
— Chris Cleave (Little Bee)
— Chris Cleave (Little Bee)
"On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived."
— Chris Cleave (Little Bee)
— Chris Cleave (Little Bee)
"We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'."
— Chris Cleave (The Other Hand)
— Chris Cleave (The Other Hand)
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