Leeches by David Albahari
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...
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 Zürcher Zeitung *
Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough * La Vie Littéraire *
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 Zürcher Zeitung *
Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough * La Vie Littéraire *
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, Götz 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099563464 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099563460 |
| Title | Leeches |
| Author | David Albahari |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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