Madness is Better than Defeat
Verlag | Hodder & Stoughton |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 416 |
Format | 16,6 x 23,5 x 3,0 cm |
Gewicht | 540 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1473613590 |
EAN | 9781473613591 |
Bestell-Nr | 47361359UA |
The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman.
Klappentext:
In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed.
Rezension:
Dazzling . . . his best to date . . . If there is one adjective that describes Beauman's prose it is 'buoyant' - a quality which allows the reader to get through a long book with little effort, and the author to carry the considerable heft of his intelligence lightly. And it is a roaming intelligence. David Patrikarakos Spectator