Marjana Gaponenko

Who Is Martha?

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Vividly drawn characters, history, music, birds, love, loneliness, and wisdom . . . A brilliant book, rich and satisfying as a Viennese torte (Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology). In this poignant yet rollicking novel, ninety-six-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski forgoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha-the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons-died. Levadski too has an acute sense of being the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Spencer, Arabella (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-939931-17-7
EAN: 9781939931177
Produktnummer: 22594545
Verlag: New Vessel Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 217 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Marjana Gaponenko was born in 1981 in Odessa, Ukraine. She fell in love with the German language as a young girl, and began writing in German when she was sixteen. After spending time in Crakow and Dublin, she now lives in Mainz and Vienna. Gaponenko won the 2013 Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Prize for Who is Martha?Arabella Spencer studied German & Philosophy at King's College London and Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She has lived in Munich and Seville and currently lives in London.