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Funeral for a dog : a novel / Thomas Pletzinger ; translated by Ross Benjamin

By:

Pletzinger, Thomas, , 1975-

Contributor(s):

Benjamin, Ross

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton , c2011.Description: 322 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780393337259

Uniform titles:

Bestattung eines Hundes . English

DDC classification:

FIC PLE

LOC classification:

PT2716.L47 B4713 2011

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC PLE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024362

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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.

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