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ISBN
9781564782731
Published
2001-07-19
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press; Dalkey Archive Press
Weight
213 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
136
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Biographical note
William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. He is also the author of Poor People, a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; Riding Toward Everywhere, an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin and Granta. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.
Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate. Although the stories Kis tells are based on historical events, the beauty and precision of his prose elevates these ostensibly true stories into works of literary art that transcend the politics of their time.
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Product details
ISBN
9781564782731
Published
2001-07-19
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press; Dalkey Archive Press
Weight
213 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
136
Translated by
Afterword by