Gorgias mother country Booker Prize-winning author of The

Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient: “an elegiac thriller [with] the immediate allure of a dark fairy tale” (The Washington Post) set in the decade after World War II that tells the dramatic story of two teenagers and an eccentric group of characters

drawing on a lifetime of study

leaving little time for friends

a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril

philosophy is not academic logic-chopping

Gorgias mother country Booker Prize-winning author of TheAuthor Contributor(s): Plato; Hamilton, Walter; Emlyn Jones, Chris; Emlyn Jones, Chris; Emlyn Jones, Chris; Emlyn Jones, Chris Publisher: Penguin Classics Date: 6 29 2004 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW The classic political dialogue, as relevant today as in Plato's time Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, Gorgias debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public