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Italian
Vintage
15 August 2012
A thrilling adventure into an underground world of secret societies and conspiracy theories.

A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   232g
ISBN:   9780099563464
ISBN 10:   0099563460
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Albahari was born in Serbia and emigrated to Canada in 1994. He is the author of eleven novels and nine collections of short stories. His previous novel, G tz and Meyer, was published in English and won the ALTA Translation Award. A story of his was recently selected for Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksandar Hemon.

Reviews for Leeches

Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough * La Vie Litteraire * Kafka for our times * Neue Zurcher Zeitung * A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies * Die Zeit * Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history -- Claire Allfree * Metro * Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot -- Kate Saunders * The Times *


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