Christopher Meades

The Last Hiccup (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them" ( Booklist). 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-in this novel, a winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction from the author of Hanna Who Fell From the Sky. "A beautifully written novel, part folk tale, part parable." -Will Ferguson, author of Happiness

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ECW Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781770902275
• Artikelnr.: 37943289

Autorenporträt

Vancouver-based Christopher Meades is the author of The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark.His story "The Walking Lady" won the 2009 Toyon Fiction Prize. Find him online at ChristopherMeades.com.