Vesna Goldsworthy

Gorsky

A Novel

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On a rainy afternoon in London's old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store's bored and brilliant clerk, with sourcing books for a massive personal library, which which will be housed in the magnificent, palatial home Gorsky happens to be building immediately next to Nikola's own modest dwelling. Gorsky needs a tasteful collection of Russian literature to woo a long-lost love-no matter that she happens to be married to an Englishman. His passion for her surpasses even hi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4683-1287-4
EAN: 9781468312874
Produktnummer: 30208927
Verlag: Abrams
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'455 KB

Über den Autor

Vesna Goldsworthy is a Serbian poet and writer living in London. She is author of three books: Inventing Ruritania; a memoir of her childhood in Yugoslavia, Chernobyl Strawberries, which was published to great acclaim in 2005 by Atlantic; and the Crashaw Prize-winning poetry collection, The Angel of Salonika (2011), greeted by the Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee as a welcome new voice in English poetry, and one of The Times Poetry Books of the Year.