Dan Vyleta

Pavel & I

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, Pavel & I mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two characters: Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pavel home with thoughts of stealing from him, but ultimately stays on to help nurse him back to health. A friendship of mutual need and genuine tenderness develops. When a dead Russian spy is delivered to Pavel's frozen apartment, Pavel and Anders find themselves caught in the beginnings of a Cold War conspiracy of epic proportions. Complete with a secret love affair between Pavel and the German mistress of a menacing British military official, and peopled with pimps, prostitutes, Russian and English spies and a Lord-of-the-Flies-style gang of child thieves, Pavel & I is a unique, breathtaking noir novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 25292
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192.9999950mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780747591931
• ISBN-10: 0747591938
• Artikelnr.: 23116879

Autorenporträt

Vyleta, Dan
Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late 1960s. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. His first novel, Pavel & I, gathered immediate international acclaim and was translated into eight languages. His second novel, The Quiet Twin, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The Crooked Maid was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the 2014 J.I. Segal Award.
www.danvyleta.com

Rezensionen

'This remarkable debut from Vyleta ... is a very different and very subtle novel, and deserves to be pulled out of the pack ... it's high quality and he doles it out elegantly. Vyleta is a writer to watch' Globe and Mail