All Backs Were Turned (eBook)

Marek Hlasko (Autor)

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2019
140 Seiten
New Vessel Press (Verlag)
978-1-939931-18-4 (ISBN)

Infos

All Backs Were Turned, set in Israel, is a story of sexual passion, violence, and betrayal, in classic hardboiled prose.

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"e;An existential fable"e; from the uncompromising Polish author of Killing the Second Dog, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe (The New York Times). In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love, two desperate friends on the edge of the law one of them tough and gutsy, the other small and scared travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat to find work. There, Dov Ben Dov, the handsome native Israeli with a reputation for causing trouble, and Israel, his sidekick, stay with Ben Dov's recently married younger brother, Little Dov, who has enough trouble of his own. Local toughs are encroaching on Little Dov's business, and he enlists his older brother to drive them away. It doesn't help that a beautiful German widow named Ursula is rooming next door. What follows is a story of passion, deception, violence, and betrayal, all conveyed in hardboiled prose reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, with a cinematic style that would make Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando green with envy. "e;[A] blowtorch of a novel . . . Matchless and prescient."e; Publishers Weekly "e;A story as bleak and unrelenting as its setting, in which no one escapes the past or themselves. Nihilistic but compelling."e; Kirkus Reviews Praise for Marek Hlasko"e;Hlasko was an original. His novels were fearless, his vision unsparing, and decades later, his darkly brilliant work has lost none of its power to unsettle. He achieved what few other writers ever have: he turned the literary landscape into a much more interesting place than it was when he found it."e; Emily St. John Mandel, author of National Book Award finalist Station Eleven

Autor

lt;div>Marek Hlasko: Marek Hlasko, known as the Polish James Dean, was born 1933. He was known for his brutal prose style and unflinching eye. Persecuted by the Polish government, Hlasko spent the last decade of his life in exile, and died in 1969 of an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol in Wiesbaden, West Germany.

Tomasz Mirkowicz: Tomasz Mirkowicz, translator of American and British fiction, was born in Warsaw in 1953. He translated into Polish the works of Ken Kesey, George Orwell, Jerzy Kosinski, Harry Matthews, Robert Coover, Alan Sillitoe and Charles Bukowski. Mirkowicz, also a fiction writer and critic, died in 2003.