The Anonymous Novel: Sensing the Future Torments: No. 1 - Brossura

Barbero, Alessandro

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0956056040 ISBN 13: 9780956056047

Casa editrice: Vagabound Voices Pub Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Set in Gorbachev's Russia, The Anonymous Novel is a complex and compelling story of many varied characters dealing with the problems of change, coming to terms with the past and fretting about the future. Barbero manages that typically Italian trick of combining both humour and profundity, and his exceptional storytelling skill are even more clearly displayed than in this, his finest novel. The murder of Pashayev, a leading Muslim cleric in Azerbaijan, triggers a series of events. This is not a murder mystery, as the reader knows who the culprit is from the very beginning, whilst the other characters, including the investigating judge, never do, but there is nevertheless a tension - suspense even - that holds the reader, who is in any case fascinated but the breadth of the intellectual argument, the wit and the observation of human nature. Vitali Vitaliev has described this book as "a literary miracle - unique, witty and gripping. It reads like Bulgakov's prose somewhat modernised or even a careful and sensitive translation of one of the great Russian classics. It is stunningly authentic, and I cannot believe that the author and translator are NOT Russian...A book to savour and consume slowly. .."

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This is a literary miracle - unique, witty and gripping. It reads like Bulgakov's prose somewhat modernised or a careful and sensitive translation of one of the great Russian classics. It is stunningly authentic, and I cannot believe that the author and translator are NOT Russian... A book to savour and consume slowly... --Vitali Vitaliev

L'autore:

Born in 1959, Alessandro Barbero won the prestigious Premio Strega 1996 with his first novel, which was translated into many other languages but not English. This, his second novel, met with considerable critical acclaim, but although it was published in 1998, it has only just been translated into English. Since then Barbero, who is also a highly successful historian and cultural commentator, has published two more novels.

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• Editore: Vagabound Voices Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0956056040
• ISBN 13: 9780956056047
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 462