Pletzinger, Thomas  , 1975- <br/><br/>
Funeral for a dog  : a novel 
/ Thomas Pletzinger ; translated by Ross Benjamin 
 - New York  : W.W. Norton  , c2011. 
 - 322 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Winner of Uwe-Johnson Prize. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393337259 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010039784 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PT2716.L47  / B4713 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC PLE