Leeches
Published on 2. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-09-956346-4 (ISBN)
Description
A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...
Reviews / Votes
Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot -- Kate Saunders * The Times * Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history -- Claire Allfree * Metro * A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies * Die Zeit * Kafka for our times * Neue Zuercher Zeitung * Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough * La Vie Litteraire *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-956346-4 (9780099563464)
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David Albahari was born in Serbia and emigrated to Canada in 1994. He is the author of eleven novels and nine collections of short stories. His previous novel, Goetz and Meyer, was published in English and won the ALTA Translation Award. A story of his was recently selected for Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksandar Hemon.