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Author: Karen Duve
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Imprint: Dedalus Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 19.80cm
ISBN: 9781910213728
ISBN 10: 1910213721
Pages: 311
Publication Date: 12 January 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Top Ten Reads for Independent Minds..."" --Book Blast ""An exciting, nightmarish, at the same time incredibly funny dystopia that reflects the problems of our times..."" -- Rolling Stone"
This is a quirky, gripping and, above all, witty fantasy novel, narrated at considerable pace, with subversive elements in the story that make for even more compelling reading. The language can be blunt, graphic and harrowing Readers should be warned to expect the unexpected. Riveting Reads An exciting, nightmarish, at the same time incredibly funny dystopia that reflects the great problems of our times from climate change via the streams of refugees to religious fanaticism. Rolling Stone A Good Read for Fans of The Handmaid's Tale. Book Blast Top Ten Reads for Independent Minds
This is a quirky, gripping and, above all, witty fantasy novel, narrated at considerable pace, with subversive elements in the story that make for even more compelling reading. The language can be blunt, graphic and harrowing Readers should be warned to expect the unexpected. Riveting Reads A Good Read for Fans of The Handmaid's Tale. Book Blast Top Ten Reads for Independent Minds An exciting, nightmarish, at the same time incredibly funny dystopia that reflects the great problems of our times from climate change via the streams of refugees to religious fanaticism. Rolling Stone
Author Information
Born in Hamburg in 1961, Karen Duve is one of Germany's leading contemporary writers. She has won eight literary prizes, the latest being the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humour. While working on her books about eating responsibly, in which she tried out a number of ethically based forms of eating, she became a committed vegetarian and a well-known figure on German television arguing, for example, with representatives of the agricultural industry. As well as polemics, short stories and children's books, she has written five novels; one of which, Taxi, has been made into a film. He has published over eighty translations from German and French, including Gustav Meyrink's five novels and The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy. His translation of Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize after he had been shortlisted in previous years for his translations of Stephanie by Herbert Rosendorfer and The Golem by Gustav Meyrink. His translations have been shortlisted four times for The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
