SNOWMAN, THE - Softcover

Jorg Fauser

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ISBN 10: 1904738052 ISBN 13: 9781904738053

Publisher: BITTER LEMON PRESS, 2004

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Blum's found five pounds of top-quality Peruvian cocaine in a suitcase. His adventure startedin Malta where he was trying to sell porn magazines, the latest in a string of dodgy deals that never seem to come off. A left-luggage ticket from the Munich train station leads him to the gear. Now his problems begin in earnest. Pursued by the police and drug traffickers, the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine addict and dealer. His desperate and clumsy search for a buyer takes him to Munich to Frankfurt and finally Ostend.

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About the Author:

Jorg Fauser, born in 1944 in Germany, was a novelist, essayist and journalist. Having broken his dependency on heroin at the age of thirty he spent much of the rest of his working life dependent on alcohol. He nevertheless produced three highly successful novels including The Snowman and much praised essays of literary criticism. On July 16th 1987 he had been celebrating his forty third birthday. At dawn, instead of going back to his home in Munich, he wandered on to a stretch of motorway, by chance or by choice, and was struck down by a truck. He died instantly. Translator of The Snowman.

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