James Meek

The People's Act Of Love (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

1919, Siberia . . . Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673756
• Artikelnr.: 38357555

Autorenporträt

James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People's Act of Love won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His latest novel The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2012 and his novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels, a book of non-fiction and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.