The Sickness

Zusatztext 'Tyszka is a perceptive! original writer. He has brought an unusually sophisticated understanding to a wonderfully intense! little novel. No sentimentality! no polemic! just emotion at its most resonant' Eileen Battersby! Irish Times. Informationen zum Autor Alberto Barrera Tyszka, poet and novelist, is well known in Venezuela for his Sunday column in the newspaper El Nacional. He co-wrote the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Hugo Chávez (2007), the first biography of the Venezuelan president. His novel The Sickness won the prestigious Herralde Prize and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Homeland or Death was the winner of the Tusquets Prize. Klappentext An exquisitely crafted gem, packed with suspense, about obsession, illness, and the fundamental problems of the human condition, by the 'Venezuelan Ian McEwan'. Zusammenfassung An exquisitely crafted gem! packed with suspense! about obsession! illness! and the fundamental problems of the human condition! by the 'Venezuelan Ian McEwan'.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Alberto Barrera Tyszka
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.07.2011
• EAN: 9781849164030
• ISBN: 978-1-84916-403-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Venezolanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary