The Porpoise
od Mark Haddon z vydavateľstva Chatto & Windus 2019
The Porpoise
od Mark Haddon z vydavateľstva Chatto & Windus 2019
Autor: | Mark Haddon |
Vydavateľstvo: | Chatto & Windus |
Rok vydania: | 2019 |
EAN: | 9781784742836 |
ISBN: | 978-1-784-74283-6 |
Počet strán: | 336 |
Typ tovaru: | mäkká |
Jazyk: | en |
Rozmery: | 154 x 232 mm |
Žáner: | Angličtina ( tituly v Anglickom jazyku) |
Vydanie: | 1 |
Viac o knihe The Porpoise (Mark Haddon)
'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father.She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world.When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail...So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.