Nicholas Shakespeare

Broschiertes Buch

Snowleg

Beschreibung

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed.

Autor

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in Asia and South America. One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 1993, and considered by the Wall Street Journal as 'one of the best English novelists of our time', his prize-winning books have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs , Inheritance, Priscilla, Six Minutes in May and acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin and Ian Fleming. His most recent thriller featuring John Dyer was The Sandpit. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice, was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 544017
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780099466093
• ISBN-10: 0099466090
• Artikelnr.: 13182848

Rezensionen

This novel is one of the finest attempts in English to convey something of two very strange places which no longer appear on the map of Europe... Shakespeare has told a very skilful story Evening Standard