Dancer and the Thief

Name: Dancer and the Thief
Brand: W W NORTON & CO
SKU: 9780393333671
Price: 469 CZK
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Autor: Antonio Skarmeta, Katherine Silver

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: W W NORTON & CO

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This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluc...

Informace o knize

Autor

Antonio Skarmeta, Katherine Silver

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

314

EAN

9780393333671

ISBN

0393333671

Enbook ID

04604610

Vydavatel

W W NORTON & CO

Hmotnost

433

Rozměry

140 x 210 x 19

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This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protege, "conjures...a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where the memory of Pinochet's reign and the 'disappearing' of citizens still looms" (Publishers Weekly). With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Angel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank robber Nicolas Vergara Grey, whose front-page exploits won him a reputation he would rather leave behind. Their plan for an ambitious and daring robbery is complicated by the galvanizing presence of Victoria Ponce, a virtuosic dancer and high-school dropout whose father was a victim of the regime. Praised for his "ability to place a personal story in the context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and universal" (San Francisco Chronicle), Antonio Skarmeta sets this exuberant love story against the backdrop of the new Chile, free from the Pinochet dictatorship but beholden to the perils of globalization. The Dancer and the Thief, which won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize, is a remarkable new novel from one of South America's finest storytellers. Reading group guide included."

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