The American

ISBN-13: 9780553825725 / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str.

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Opis

The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla - Mr Butterfly. But as inconspicuous as Farfalla tries to make himself, his real profession is deadly: he creates guns for assassins. He wishes to make his next job his last, but a treacherous circle is closing in on him.

Recenzje

There are echoes of Nabokov in this in this tense and poetic mystery Today

O autorze

Martin Booth, novelist, critic, biographer, children's author and social historian, died of a brain tumor in 2004. Shortly after diagnosis, he began to write his acclaimed memoir of his childhood in Hong Kong, Gweilo which he completed shortly before his death. Amongst his acclaimed novels were Hiroshima Joe, based on the life of a real down-and-out Briton who had survived the Nagasaki atomic raid, The Industry of Souls, which was short-listed for the Booker prize, and A Very Private Gentleman, which has now been filmed as The American, starring George Clooney.