The Dancer Upstairs

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 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 novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves , winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs , which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novel is Secrets of the Sea . He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford. Zusammenfassung This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism. The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John le Carré - tense, intricate and heartbreaking.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Shakespeare
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.11.2005
• EAN: 9780099466567
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946656-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Espionage & spy thriller, FICTION / Thrillers / Political, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Political / legal thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary