Jean Echenoz

Lightning

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Lightningis a captivating fictionalized biography of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, written by the master magician of the contemporary French novel (The Washington Post).The book traces the notable career of Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels across the Atlantic at the age of twenty-eight to work alongside Thomas Edison and quickly begins to astound the world with his brilliant inventions.As Echenoz reveals in a style that is impeccable, full of finesse and promise (Le Monde), this profoundly solitary man holds a rare gift for imagining device… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Coverdale, Linda (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-59558-649-0
EAN: 9781595586490
Produktnummer: 8859237
Verlag: New Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 142 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.4 cm x D1.8 cm 241 g
Gewicht: 241

Über den Autor

Jean Echenoz won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt for I'm Gone (The New Press). He is the author of five previous novels in English translation and the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Medicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris.Linda Coverdale's most recent translation for The New Press was Jean Echenoz's Running. She was the recipient of the French American Foundation's 2008 Translation Prize for her translation of Echenoz's Ravel. She lives in Brooklyn.