Eating Air (häftad)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
408
Utgivningsdatum
2010-05-06
Förlag
Telegram Books
Dimensioner
198 x 132 x 40 mm
Vikt
460 g
ISBN
9781846590818

Eating Air

Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-05-06
120
  • Skickas från oss inom 5-8 vardagar.
  • Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.
Finns även som
Visa alla 1 format & utgåvor
What could a ballerina, an anarchist, an Islamic terrorist and a banker possibly have in common? Our narrator, the enigmatic, piano-playing, rum drinking, Baron S knows. And he's ready to tell. Moving between the seventies and the present-day, between London, Italy and Surinam, Pauline Melville marshals a brilliant cast of characters to tell an explosive tale of greed, passion and revolutionary ideals.
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. Eating Air
  2. +
  3. A Court of Frost and Starlight

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt A Court of Frost and Starlight av Sarah J Maas (häftad).

Köp båda 2 för 239 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Pauline Melville

  • The Ventriloquist's Tale

    Pauline Melville

    The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying cult...

  • The Master of Chaos and Other Fables

    Pauline Melville

    A Nobel laureate struggles to write a convincing suicide note; a hobo sings of hope in the darkest hours after the Grenfell disaster; in a strange post-death waiting room, Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary exchange confidences, and a scientist finally...

Recensioner i media

'Shocking and original. One of the few novels about terrorism - that may transcend their time.' Heather McRobie, New Statesman 'A fiendishly clever novel - Brilliantly funny and sharp.' Kate Saunders, Times 'A virtuoso performance.' Stevie Davies, The Independent 'Compelling.' Lavinia Greenlaw, The Financial Times '[Has] a wild energy that demands attention.' Hermione Lee, Guardian

Övrig information

Film and TV actress Pauline Melville burst onto the literary scene in the early nineties with a short story collection, Shape-shifter, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Pauline's first novel, The Ventriloquist's Tale won the Whitbread First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in London.