Leeches
David Albahari author Ellen Elias-Bursac translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Aug '12
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A thrilling adventure into an underground world of secret societies and conspiracy theories.
A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...
Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history -- Claire Allfree * Metro *
A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies * Die Zeit *
Kafka for our times * Neue Zürcher Zeitung *
Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough * La Vie Littéraire *
ISBN: 9780099563464
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 232g
320 pages