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Im Sortiment seit:
08.09.2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.09.2015
Einband:
Kartoniert / Broschiert
Übersetzungstitel:
Der Wal und das Ende der Welt
Verlag:
Orion Publishing Group
Imprint:
Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Rubrik:
Belletristik
Romane, Erzählungen
Herkunft:
GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB)
From the author of THE NOTABLE BRAIN OF MAXIMILIAN PONDER and THE COINCIDENCE AUTHORITY, a book about humanity, love ... and a whale. Includes reading-group notes.
John Ironmonger was born and grew up in East Africa. He has a doctorate in zoology, and was once an expert on freshwater leeches. He is the author of The Good Zoo Guide and the novels The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder (shortlisted for the 2012 Costa First Novel Prize and the Guardian 's Not the Booker Prize), The Coincidence Authority and The Whale at the End of the World (an international bestseller). He has also been part of a world record team for speed reading Shakespeare, has driven across the Sahara in a £100 banger, and once met Jared Diamond in a forest in the middle of Sumatra.