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| Verlag | Faber & Faber |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 15,5 x 4,2 x 24,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 744 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780571336876 |
| Bestell-Nr | 57133687EA |
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the best-selling author of Golden Hill.
Klappentext:
§A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the best-selling author of Golden Hill.
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper.
It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. But in this 1922, things are a little different. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient indigenous city of Cahokia has lived on. It is now a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week of drama that will spill the secrets of this altered world, and bring it, against a soundtrack of jazz clarinets and wailing streetcars, either to destruction or rebirth.
The multiple award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly-created, richly pleasure-givin g, epically-scaled, wise-cracking, bone-breaking novel set in a golden age of wicked entertainments.
Rezension:
Francis Spufford has discovered a new riff on a favourite tune, and in exploring it has created something wholly unique. Cahokia Jazz is extraordinary. Mick Herron