In Search of Lost Books:

Informationen zum Autor Giorgio van Straten is director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and one of the editors of the literature review Nuovi Argomenti. He is the author of several novels! including the prize-winning A Living Memory! along with two collections of short stories. He has translated the works of authors such as Kipling! London and Stevenson and has edited several works of non-fiction. Klappentext The Hemingway novel that vanished with a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon, the memoirs of Byron burnt to avoid scandal and other lost masterpieces are pursued and investigated by author of "A Living Memory" Giorgio Van Straten. Both elegiac and as exciting as a detective novel. Zusammenfassung The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Carnell Segre, Giorgio van Straten, Straten Giorgio van, Giorgio Van Straten
• Assisted by: Carnell Simon (Translation), Segre Erica (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.08.2018
• EAN: 9781782273745
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-374-5
• No. of pages: 130
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Literary reference works