Equilateral : A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781408843765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str.

Ken Kalfus

Opis

It's the late 19th century, and British astronomer Sanford Thayer has won international funding for his scheme to excavate an equilateral triangle, 300 miles to a side, from the remote wastes of Egypt's Western Desert. The 900,000 Arab fellahin have been put to work on the project, even though they can't understand Thayer's obsessive purpose. They don't believe him when he says his perfect triangle will be visible to the highly evolved beings who inhabit the planet Mars, signaling the existence of civilization on Earth.

Recenzje

Irresistibly eccentric and clever The Times

O autorze

Ken Kalfus is the author of two novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. He's also published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages. He lives in Philadelphia.