St Peter's Snow - Hardcover

Perutz, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559700831 ISBN 13: 9781559700832

Publisher: Import US, 1990

Synopsis

First published and banned by the Nazis in 1933, this work follows Dr. George Amberg as he emerges from an unexplained coma and discovers a plot by the government to manipulate the population by means of a drug

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Review:

'Masterly. It possesses the desperate inevitability of Edgar Allen Poe' Jewish Chronicle

'Rich in narrative and erotic suspense... This small gem of a novel is worth reading in any language' San Francisco Chronicle

'Ranks with 1984 in its portrait of a manipulated populace' --Library Journal

About the Author:

Leo Perutz is the author of eleven novels that attracted the admiration of such writers as Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, Italo Calvino, and Jorge Luis Borges. He was born in Prague in 1882 and lived in Vienna until the NaziAnschluss, when he fled to Palestine. He returned to Austria in the fifties and died in 1957. Perutz's Master of the Day of Judgment, and St Peter's Snow are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Import US
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1559700831
• ISBN 13: 9781559700832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1