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The
2004 Award
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Wake Up by Tim Pears |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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John, a potato isn't just a staple food, it's wondrous, the secret of his
success and key to the future. With his brother, Greg, he has turned their
father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest dealer in
potatoes. Now he wants to change the world by introducing, through potatoes,
edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an edible alternative
to injections. But as John spins round and round the ring road avoiding
his turn-off to work he has to figure out how to tell his brother that,
deep in the Venezuelan jungle, volunteers have died during the latest illegal
trials. Deaths they have to find some way to hide. Wake UP is
a provocative, gripping, funny and disturbing books about our restless times,
our blindfold glide into a new genetic age. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Tim Pears is the author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Award), In a Land of Plenty (adapted into a major BBC TV series in 2001) and A Revolution of the Sun. He lives in Oxford, England with his wife and children. |
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