β Scribed by Sam Munson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A breakthrough novel from the acclaimed young American writer
Boris Leonidovich, a North American professor who specializes in the history of prison architecture, has been invited to Buenos Aires for an academic conference. He's planning to present a paper on Moscow's feared Butyrka prison, but most of all he's looking forward to seeing his enigmatic, fiercely intelligent colleague (and sometime lover) Ana again. As soon as Boris arrives, however, he encounters obstacle after unlikely obstacle: he can't get in touch with Ana, he locks himself out of his rented room, and he discovers dog-feeding stations and water bowls set before every house and business. With night approaching, he finds himself lost and alone in a foreign city filled with stray dogs, all flowing with sinister, bewildering purpose though the darkness...
Shadowed with foreboding, and yet alive with the comical mischief of CeΒ΄sar Aira and the nimble touch of a great stylist, Dog Symphony is an...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called "elephantine fun" to write.A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed--in liberty, equality, and fraternity--from Beethoven's Third
"The Incident" may have happened over a year ago, but it is still alive and living in Tegan's mind. Torn between love and hate, she doesn't know which way to turn or who to trust. When her path crosses with a handsome private protection specialist, everything Tegan knows will be tested. Love and ha
Mutants from the atomic bomb ridden Earth meet Mankind from the stars who escaped just before the destruction. The mutants won't give up and let space-man rule Earth once again. Formats : EPUB, MOBI Quality : 4