The final solution: A Story of Detection - Brossura

Chabon, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0060777109 ISBN 13: 9780060777104

Casa editrice: Harper USA, 2006

Riassunto

Deep in the rural English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old beekeeper--and one-time famous detective--becomes involved with nine-year-old Linus Steinman, a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a mysterious series of German numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“One of the best-written American novels published this fall . . . an experiment by a master.” (The New York Sun)

“A profound pleasure.” (New York magazine)

“Delightful...and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness.” (Louisville Courier Journal)

“Simple and startlingly sad...Chabon has created a minor masterpiece.” (Hartford Courant)

“A haunting novella.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Brilliant and unswervingly entertaining.” (The Forward)

“The writing is everything that Chabon’s fans expect--gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic...wonderfully executed.” (Baltimore Sun)

“Packed with gorgeous writing...a knockout. You’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

“Michael Chabon, is, simply, the coolest writer in America.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“Chabon’s writing here is elegant and limber...[The Final Solution] is a little mystery story with big ideas.” (San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of 2004))

L'autore:

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

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• Editore: Harper USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060777109
• ISBN 13: 9780060777104
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 129