The Snake Tree - Couverture rigide

Timm, Uwe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0811211010 ISBN 13 : 9780811211017

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003

Synopsis

After running over an Acaray snake in South America, Wagner's luck changes and he becomes engulfed in a web of mayhem.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg, Germany. His first novel, Hot Summer, was published in 1974. New Directions publishes five of his novels, including the German best selling, The Invention of Curried Sausage, and the award winning, Morenga. After apprenticing as a furrier, Timm studied philosophy and philology in Paris and Munich. He is the 1989 winner of the Munich Literary Prize. He has been called an "extraordinary story teller" (The New Yorker) and "one of the best living German Writers" (Kirkus Reviews).

Peter Tegel fled Sudetenland, a region of the former Czechoslovakia, at the age of six with his Czech-German family. He escaped to Britain to avoid the Nazis and then graduated from Balliol College, Oxford. He has produced translations of German, French and Russian literature. Currently, Tegel is co-chair of the Pushkin Club, a nonpolitical organization in London that is dedicated to Russian artistic and literary culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0811211010
• ISBN 13: 9780811211017
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 281