Rex - A Novel

Klappentext - Prieto has been the recipient of fellowships, grants, and awards from Sistema Nacional de Creadores, the Santa Maddalena Foundation, and the Florencia and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Zusammenfassung Now in paperback! José Manuel Prieto’s Rex is a sexy! zany! and sophisticated literary game rife with allusions to Proust and Borges! set in a world of wealthy Russian expats and mafiosos who have settled in western Europe. J. is a young Cuban man who! thanks to his knowledge of Russian and Spanish! has become the tutor of the young son of a wealthy Russian couple living in Marbella! in the part of southern Spain that the Russian mafia has turned into its winter quarters. As J. attempts to give the boy a general grade-school education by exclusively reading him Proust! he also becomes the personal secretary of the boy’s father! Vasily! an ex-scientist that J. suspects is on the run from gangsters. Vasily’s wife! Nelly! a seductive woman always draped in mind-boggling quantities of precious stones! believes the only way to evade the gangsters is an extravagant plan linking Vasily to the throne of the czars. Rex is an unforgettable achievement: an illusory! allusive gem of a novel that confirms José Manuel Prieto as one of the most talented writers of his generation.

Product details

• Authors: Jos Manuel Prieto, Jose Manuel Prieto, José Manuel Prieto, Prieto Jose Manuel
• Assisted by: Esther Allen (Translation), Allen Esther (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780802144836
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4483-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russia, Fiction in translation, Fiction: general & literary, c 1990 to c 1999, Relating to specific and significant cultural interests, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Russian, Proust;Borges;Europe;mafiosos;expats;czars, Europe; czars; Proust; expats; Borges; mafiosos