Snowleg

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves ( winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg , The Dancer Upstairs , Inheritance, Priscilla, Six Minutes in May and acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin and Ian Fleming. His most recent thriller featuring John Dyer was The Sandpit . He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice, was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Zusammenfassung A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Shakespeare
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2005
• EAN: 9780099466093
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946609-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Leipzig, England, Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Leipzig Cold War East Germany Communist