James Meek

The People's Act Of Love (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005
1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Then Samarin arrives. Appearing from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, he says he is being chased by a cannibal. Anna, a beautiful young widow, feels something for the new arrival. Then the local shaman is found dead and suspicion and terror engulf the little town ...

"Spellbinding. Though set in the past, this feels like the most contemporary fiction you'll ever read ... A truly great read." Irvine Welsh, Guardian

"A quite extraordinary novel ... the language is so fresh and crisp and sparkling. And what a narrative! What a story!" Philip Pullman

"Vivid, brutal and exhilarating, it renders the mass of historical fiction pallid by comparison." Daily Mail

"Magnificent and beautifully written ... such a truly Russian novel, with its huge horizons, it is an exceptional event in English literature." Antony Beevor

"A great Russian story full of heart and hot blood ... it's almost too big for the Booker Prize." Sunday Herald

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673756
• Artikelnr.: 38357555

Autorenporträt

James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People's Act of Love won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His latest novel The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2012 and his novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels, a book of non-fiction and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.