Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse - Brossura

Ó Ceallaigh, Philip

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ISBN 10: 1844880753 ISBN 13: 9781844880751

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2006

Riassunto

A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the roof. A smuggler pays off an old debt to his sister and resigns himself to a life of honest toil in the mine-shafts of his home town. A mysterious rodent named Brigitte enters the lives of two old men. And, in the astonishing long story 'In the Neighbourhood', the inhabitants of a crumbling tower-block go about their business, unforgettably.

The stories of Philip Ó Ceallaigh create a world that is utterly original and yet immediately recognizable - a world of ordinary people grappling with work and idleness, ambition and frustration, wildness and sobriety, love and lust and decay. Scabrously honest, screamingly funny and beautifully crafted, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is a brilliant debut from a writer who cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the art of fiction.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a native of County Waterford, has lived and worked in Britain, Spain, Russia, the US, Kosovo, and Georgia. He currently lives in Bucharest. Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is his first book.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844880753
• ISBN 13: 9781844880751
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288