The Last Hiccup
- Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Liv
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- Engelsk
- 240 sider
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"A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them." -- Booklist
"A beautifully written novel, part folk tale, part parable." -- Will Ferguson, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning 419
Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction
In 1930s Russia, an eight-year-old boy named Vladimir is suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary -- and often bizarre -- treatments in an effort to find a cure.
Then Sergei's chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexander Afiniganov, determines that beneath Vladimir's blank eyes lurks a pure, unbridled evil -- and takes steps to remove the child from polite society. Abandoned by everyone but his hiccups, Vladimir is about to embark on a journey that is funny, poignant, and surreal -- and that takes a close look at the nature of good and evil.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal240
- Udgivelsesdato01-04-2012
- ISBN139781550229738
- Forlag ECW Press
- FormatPaperback
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10 cm
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