Kokoschka's Doll

Zusatztext A novel par excellence that is destined to become a classic' of almost byzantine splendour . . . At its best worthy of comparison with Gabriel García Márquez . Informationen zum Autor Afonso Cruz was born in Figueira da Foz in 1971. He works as a director of animation movies, an illustrator, a musician and a writer. Cruz studied at the António Arroio Arts High School in Lisbon, at the College of Fine Arts of Lisbon and at the Madeira Institute of Plastic Arts. His animation career includes several movies and series. In 2007, he recorded an album with his blues/roots band, The Soaked Lamb, for which he composed the original songs, wrote the lyrics, sang and played the guitar, the banjo, the harmonica and the ukulele. He started his career as a fiction writer in 2008 with the novel A Carne de Deus (The Flesh of God). Klappentext A richly imaginative novel inspired by the true story of Oscar Kokoschka and his life-sized doll - Winner of the European Prize for LiteratureA richly imaginative novel inspired by the true story of Oscar Kokoschka and his life-sized doll - Winner of the European Prize for Literature Zusammenfassung A richly imaginative novel inspired by the true story of Oscar Kokoschka and his life-sized doll - Winner of the European Prize for Literature

Product details

• Authors: Afonso Cruz
• Assisted by: Rahul Bery (Translation), Angel Gurria-Quintana (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781529402698
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-0269-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Portugal, Fiction in translation, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Modern and contemporary fiction, HISTORY / Europe / Spain