Published by Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Publishing Aug 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1526617226 ISBN 13: 9781526617224
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Beautiful, thoughtful . sharp and scintillatingly sensual' Independent'With this haunting, poetic work McCann has surely earned his place among the country's greats' Metro__________________The life of Zoli Novotna begins on the leafy backroads of Slovakia, when she and her grandfather come upon a quiet lake where their family has been drowned by Fascist guards. Zoli and her grandfather flee to join up with another clan of travelling harpists. So begins an epic tale of song, intimacy and betrayal. Based loosely on the true story of the Gypsy poet Papusza, and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Zoli is a love story, a tale of loss, and a parable of modern-day Europe.
Published by Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Publishing Aug 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1526618397 ISBN 13: 9781526618399
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people.Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment.Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of our true nature and a dark reflection of the world we live in.