Little Caesar - Brossura

Tommy Wieringa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1925228185 ISBN 13: 9781925228182

Casa editrice: Scribe Publications, 2016

Riassunto

Ludwig Unger's life held such promise. His parents were artists and, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world's concert halls. In his mother's imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, and for now, he's playing in local cocktail bars and the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, and Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story of beauty and decay, of a child's faith and parental betrayal, and of the importance, in the end, of self-sacrifice.

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Recensione:

'Captivating - a modern day odyssey that leads us via porn stars and artists and houses falling off cliffs into the heart of a singular character.' --Kamila Shamsie, author of A God in Every Stone

'Tommy Wieringa's ambitious novel is a brilliant exploration of the uneasy transition from adolescence into adulthood the restlessness, yearning for stability, irrational decisions and erotic obsessions.' --The Independent

'Beautifully lyrical storytelling under a banner of gray skies and heavy hearts; one gorgeous, epic reminder than no matter what skeletons we have in our closet, we all try our best and our hardest to do well by the ones we love as Morrissey has sung: 'That's how people grow up.'' --Dan Kennedy, host of The Moth podcast

L'autore:

Tommy Wieringa was born in 1967 and grew up partly in the Netherlands, and partly in the tropics. He began his writing career with travel stories and journalism, and is the author of four other novels. His fiction has been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Oxford/Weidenfeld Prize, and has won Holland's Libris Literature Prize.

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• Editore: Scribe Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1925228185
• ISBN 13: 9781925228182
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336