Spaceman of Bohemia
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM
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2017
Sceptre (Verlag)
978-1-4736-3997-3 (ISBN)
Sceptre (Verlag)
978-1-4736-3997-3 (ISBN)
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A dazzling, ambitious, original, funny literary debut spanning duplicitous love, family secrets, political intrigue, a historical riddle and a cloud of spacedust over Venus - Everything is Illuminated meets Life of Pi.
'How unlikely! Yet here we are...'
Set in the near-distant future, Spaceman follows a Czech astronaut as he launches into space to investigate a mysterious dust cloud covering Venus, a suicide mission sponsored by a proud nation. Suddenly a world celebrity, Jakub's marriage starts to fail as the weeks go by, and his sanity comes into question. After his mission is derailed he must make a violent decision that will force him to come to terms with his family's dark political past.
An extraordinary vision of the endless human capacity to persist-and risk everything-in the name of love and home, by a startlingly talented young debut novelist.
'How unlikely! Yet here we are...'
Set in the near-distant future, Spaceman follows a Czech astronaut as he launches into space to investigate a mysterious dust cloud covering Venus, a suicide mission sponsored by a proud nation. Suddenly a world celebrity, Jakub's marriage starts to fail as the weeks go by, and his sanity comes into question. After his mission is derailed he must make a violent decision that will force him to come to terms with his family's dark political past.
An extraordinary vision of the endless human capacity to persist-and risk everything-in the name of love and home, by a startlingly talented young debut novelist.
Jaroslav Kalfar was born in the Czech Republic and immigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen. He earned his MFA at NYU, where he was a Goldwater Fellow and a finalist for the E. L. Doctorow Fellowship. In 2018, he was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship. Spaceman of Bohemia, his critically acclaimed debut novel, was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and has been translated into fifteen languages. Spaceman, an adaptation of the novel, is forthcoming soon as a major motion picture. Kalfar lives in Brooklyn.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.03.2017 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 222 mm |
| Gewicht | 312 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4736-3997-2 / 1473639972 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4736-3997-3 / 9781473639973 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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