Who Is Martha? - Couverture souple

Gaponenko, Marjana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1939931134 ISBN 13 : 9781939931139

Editeur : New Vessel Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this rollicking novel, 96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savouring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn't have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days. This gloriously written tale, in which Levadski feels his heart pounding at the portals of his brain, mixes piquant wit with lofty musings about life, friendship, ageing and death.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marjana Gaponenko was born in 1981 in Odessa, Ukraine. She fell in love with the German language as a young girl, and began writing in German when she was sixteen. After spending time in Crakow and Dublin, she now lives in Mainz and Vienna. Gaponenko won the 2013 Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Prize for Who is Martha?

Arabella Spencer studied German & Philosophy at King's College London and Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She has lived in Munich and Seville and currently lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Vessel Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1939931134
• ISBN 13: 9781939931139
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: New Vessel Press; https://newvesselpress.com/?s=New+Vessel+Press; ; 245 West 107th Street, #13F; NEW YORK; NY; 10025; Etats-Unis
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