Sniper - Couverture souple

Hak, Pavel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852428562 ISBN 13 : 9781852428563

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 2005

Synopsis

In an unnamed country, a group of fugitives flee their native village after an attack by the army. Their houses bombed and ransacked, their husbands, children, parents killed, they are seeking sanctuary across the border. In the winter ice a man tries to unearth the remains of his mother and father from a mass grave, determined to take them to a proper burial place. A sadistic military commander, before a group of young officers and the terrified women they have abducted, outlines a terrifying plan of torture, rape and murder in order to prop up his country's crumbling empire. Meanwhile, in an underground gallery, a sniper hides, picking off innocents in a besieged city. His apocalyptic, hallucinatory voice provides Sniper with its main themes, the insanity of war and the terrifying exhilaration it excites in its perpetrators.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Novelist and playwright Pavel Hak was born in Czechoslovakia in 1962. Exiled in France in 1986, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. Afterwards he began writing in French. Sniper, his second novel, is his first book to be published in English. He has also recently written a play 'Lutte a Mort' (2004). In his own words, Pavel Hak "investigates contemporary violence, mechanisms of dominations and the moral and physical torture inflicted on individuals."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852428562
• ISBN 13: 9781852428563
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible