Giles Foden

Turbulence

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Produktbeschreibung

From the highly acclaimed and prize-winning author of "The Last King of Scotland" comes a heart-stopping novel about British and American scientists who attempt the impossible--to get millions of Allied troops secretly across the English Channel for D-day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 134mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780307476265
• ISBN-10: 030747626X
• Artikelnr.: 33255830

Autorenporträt

Giles Foden was born in 1967 in England and spent his youth in Africa. Between 1990 and 2006 he worked as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. In 1998 he published The Last King of Scotland, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was later made into a feature film. The author of two other novels and also a work of narrative nonfiction, in 2007 he was appointed professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich. He lives in Norfolk, England.

Rezensionen

Masterful. . . . Rivetingly beautiful. . . . There is undoubted brilliance in TURBULENCE: wonderful writing, a flawless period atmosphere . . . and finely drawn characters. . . . One of the most utterly convincing historical novels I've read in some time
Kevin O'Kelly Boston Globe