Eduardo Berti

Agua

Buch

THE YEAR is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of the benefits of artificial light. Before long Agua learns that the village and the castle that presides over it hide deep secrets. A noble widow in decline, a will that is both cruel and impertinent, a pioneer of aviation, an epidemic and an unexpected ending are the ingredients of this novel.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cameron, Alexander (Übers.) / Buck, Paul (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-901285-42-0
EAN: 9781901285420
Produktnummer: 9699374
Verlag: Pushkin Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 159 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.2 cm 218 g
Gewicht: 218

Über den Autor

Eduardo Berti was born in Buenos Aires in 1964. He is the author of a book of short stories entitled Los pajaros for which he received an award from the magazine Cultura and which Pagina/12 newspaper considered among the best works of Argentine fiction in 1994. Agua, his first novel, was unanimously acclaimed both in Argentina and Spain and has already been published in France. His most recent novel, La mujer de Wakefield, was published in Spain in 1999 and nominated for the prestigious Prix Feminina in France.