David Malouf

Broschiertes Buch

Ransom

Beschreibung

Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature - themes of war and heroics, hubris and humanity, chance and fate, the bonds between soldiers, fathers and sons, all brilliantly recast for our times.

Autor

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his story collections are Dream Stuff and Every Move You Make where met with critical acclaim. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, he now lives in Sydney.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9780099539520
• ISBN-10: 0099539527
• Artikelnr.: 29021006