Sand - Couverture souple

Herrndorf, Wolfgang

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782271287 ISBN 13 : 9781782271284

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'So dazzling and original... a masterpiece... culminating in one of the greatest twists I've read' -- Daily Telegraph

'Herrndorf... writes with an arresting cinematic vividness, and there is more than a whiff of Coen brothers' mayhem about the plot' -- Sunday Times

'Brilliant, anarchic, darkly comic... outrageous, clever... a bravura performance' -- Irish Times

'Every element of his story is woven together masterfully, with grain upon grain of detail added to a landscape that never stops shifting underfoot. It's part Pynchon, part Beckett, a crime story told by Lewis Carroll in a particularly nihilistic mood' -- Spectator

'A careful subversion of the crime thriller genre... Sand is self-assured in its aim and delivery: an emphatic statement of intent' -- TLS

'Herrndof's enjoyment as he plays with our expectations is almost palpable' -- Glasgow Herald

'A hit in Germany... part Coen bros, part John Le Carré' -- Sunday Star

'Undoubted literary merit... sustains uncertainty until the final pages, both for the reader as well as for the protagonist' -- Crime Review

'German literary thriller that wears its intellectual cred boldly' --Sunday Times Crime Club

'A thriller destined to please with lots of shocks and a tinge of pathos' -- Irish Times

'Enigmatic and moving' -- Die Zeit

'One of the most original and stylistically impressive German writers' -- Neue Zürcher Zeitung

'A great writer. A smiling, friendly, sympathetic nihilism shines through his writing' -- Frankfurter Rundschau

'He remains a witty and incredibly well read artist, who creates a great work of art as he juggles on a tightrope here with violence, death, doom, forgetting and the nothingness of existence' -- FAZ

'A literary thriller... a terrific novel set in the desert' -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

'A gripping and marvelously comic thriller with a philosophical subtext' --Focus

'[Sand] ought to assure him a place in twenty-first century literary history: it's bold, anarchic, blackly funny, and completely unafraid' -- Elle Thinks (blog)

'Herrndorf has crafted something special here... the enigmatic Sand is the literary equivalent of a cactus: beautifully detailed, hard to get a grip on but sure to survive amid desolation and stand out sharply on a flat, monotone landscape where others sink into the dust' --Hits the Fan (blog)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Somewhere in the North African desert, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out.

Elsewhere, four westerners are murdered in a hippy commune and a suitcase full of worthless currency goes missing. Enter a pair of very unenthusiastic detectives, a paranoid spy whose sanity has baked away in the sun, and a beautiful blonde American with a talent for being underestimated.

Sand is a gripping thriller - part Pynchon, part Le Carré, part Coen brothers - an unsettling, caustically funny tale of pursuit and madness.

"A gripping and brilliantly funny thriller" Focus

'His was an extraordinary mind" Guardian

"A great writer. A smiling, friendly, sympathetic nihilism shines through his prose" Frankfurter Rundschau

"Enigmatic and moving" Die Zeit

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1782271287
• ISBN 13: 9781782271284
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448