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POST MORTEM
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| By: |
Peter Terrin, Laura Watkinson (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
085705273X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857052735 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2015 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Translated from: |
Dutch; Flemish |
| Description: |
An intense and ingenious novel about a writer's inspiration, a father's love, and a man's fear of losing his legacy. |
| Synopsis: |
Emiel Steegman, an unknown writer with a handful of novels to his name, is due to have dinner with a group of Estonian colleagues but cancels at the last moment "due to a somewhat difficult time for the family". A nasty feeling immediately comes over him: is he inviting trouble for his family in doing so? And what if a biographer stumbled on this? Would he not then suspect that something significant had happened in his life? The thought gives him a great idea for a new novel about a successful author, T, who becomes famous with an existential crime novel and increasingly worries about what his future biographer will write about him, so he withdraws entirely from public life. But Steegman's initial misgivings prove well founded. Because fate does strike. One afternoon, his daughter Renee falls asleep and it is impossible to wake her ... |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
MacLehose Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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