Funeral for a dog : a novel
Pletzinger, Thomas , 1975-
Funeral for a dog : a novel / Thomas Pletzinger ; translated by Ross Benjamin - New York : W.W. Norton , c2011. - 322 p. ; 22 cm.
Winner of Uwe-Johnson Prize.
Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away.After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated m nage trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future.
9780393337259
2010039784
PT2716.L47 / B4713 2011
FIC PLE
Funeral for a dog : a novel / Thomas Pletzinger ; translated by Ross Benjamin - New York : W.W. Norton , c2011. - 322 p. ; 22 cm.
Winner of Uwe-Johnson Prize.
Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away.After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated m nage trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future.
9780393337259
2010039784
PT2716.L47 / B4713 2011
FIC PLE
info@labibliotecapublica.org | 