A Case of Knives : reissued

ISBN-13: 9781408822968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str.

Candia McWilliam

Opis

When Hal Darbo's marriage is imminent Lucas Salik becomes panic stricken. He devises an elaborate experiment with a young girl but, as the eminent heart surgeon finds out, the whole affair turns out to be far more dangerous than he envisaged.

Recenzje

'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the highest promise Sunday Times

O autorze

Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988), which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994), which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, and a collection of stories Wait Till I Tell You (1997). In 2006 she began to suffer from the effects of blepharospasm and became functionally blind as a result. In 2009 she underwent an operation which harvested tendons from her leg in order to enable her to open her eyelids.Her most recent book is her critically acclaimed memoir, What to Look for in Winter.