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- “Vividly drawn characters, history, music, birds, love, loneliness, and wisdom . . . A brilliant book, rich and satisfying as a Viennese torte" (Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology).  In this poignant yet rollicking novel, ninety-six-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski forgoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Marthaâ€"the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeonsâ€"died. Levadski too has an acute sense of being the last of a species.  He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn’t have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days. This gloriously written tale is “a book like a fantastic party, as unshakeable as a child’s faith [that] astonishes to the very end" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).
- Marjana Gaponenko was born in 1981 in Odessa, Ukraine. She fell in love with the German language as a young girl, and began writing in German when she was sixteen. After spending time in Crakow and Dublin, she now lives in Mainz and Vienna. Gaponenko won the 2013 Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Prize for Who is Martha? Arabella Spencer studied German & Philosophy at King's College London and Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She has lived in Munich and Seville and currently lives in London.
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Titel: Who Is Martha?
Autor*in: Gaponenko, Marjana
Übersetzer*in: Spencer, Arabella
Verlag: Perseus Book Group
ISBN: 9781939931177
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen
Format: ePub
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