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Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse

Door Philip ó Ceallaigh

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#252588
Titel
Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
Auteur
Ceallaigh, Philip ó
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Penguin Ireland
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
1844880753
ISBN13
9781844880751
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the roof. A smuggler pays off an old debt to his sister and resigns himself to a life of honest toil in the mine-shafts of his home town. A mysterious rodent named Brigitte enters the lives of two old men. And, in the astonishing long story In the Neighbourhood , the inhabitants of a crumbling tower-block go about their business, unforgettably. The stories of Philip O Ceallaigh create a world that is utterly original and yet immediately recognizable - a world of ordinary people grappling with work and idleness, ambition and frust... (Lees verder)ration, wildness and sobriety, love and lust and decay. Scabrously honest, screamingly funny and beautifully crafted, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is a brilliant debut from a writer who cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the art of fiction.
Pagina's
281
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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