Simon Mawer

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Incorporating many of the finest elements of spy thrillers... a fascinating tale of and homage to the resistance fighters and members of the SOE' New York Journal of Books

Produktdetails

• Marian Sutro
• Verlag: Abacus / Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780349000060
• ISBN-10: 0349000069
• Artikelnr.: 36538664

Autorenporträt

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years while he taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently divide their time between Italy and Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Tightrope and Prague Spring.

Rezensionen

I read late into the night and cried a little when I was done. Mawer's set pieces are so beautiful you want to read them two or three times over. He writes about fear and about bravery better than any contemporary novelist I know Observer - Rachel Cooke