Simon Mawer

Prague Spring

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Little, Brown"--Copyright page.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 134mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781590519660
• ISBN-10: 1590519663
• Artikelnr.: 50687203

Autorenporträt

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England. His first novel, Chimera, won the McKitterick Prize for first novels in 1989. Mendel's Dwarf (1997), his first book to be published in the U.S., was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a New York Times Book to Remember for 1998. The Gospel of Judas, The Fall (winner of the 2003 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature), and Swimming to Ithaca followed, as well as The Glass Room, his tenth book and eighth novel, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Trapeze (Other Press) was published in 2012.

Rezensionen

Mawer is a superb chronicler of past events in foreign countries, and Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot Marcel Berlins The Times