Dynamo - Hardcover

Goddard, Tariq

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340821485 ISBN 13: 9780340821480

Verlag: Sceptre, 2003

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'A pacy, poised and undenlably exciting debut... a taut, bleakly humorous (and well written) adventure' - Boyd Tonkin 'An impressive debut... each character is drawn with humour and subtlety...a fine balance between comedy and tragedy, pathos and slapstick' - The Times 'A polished debut novel... the drama of sibling rivalries, unrequited love and marital feuds is played out to surreal and often comic effect.' - Daily Mail 'A clever mix of humour and sadness and life and death' - John King 'As surreal as it is brutal, and like the rest of this cruel, heartfelt novel, is at once transient and memorable - as well as being ridiculously funny.' - Glasgow Herald 'A cerebral, powerful and accomplished debut' - The Face

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Moscow, 1938. As Stalin's economic plans roll out across the country, and the unions buckle beneath impossible targets; as Europe rumbles on towards war, and the NKVD tightens its stranglehold on the nation, the star striker for Spartak, champions of the USSR, and the workers' football team, is struck down by a virulent strain of love-sickness and refuses to get out of bed. The eyes of Moscow are upon him, and with a critical game against Dynamo (the team of the secret police) in only a few days time, Spartak's unbeaten run looks set to end. Which would, perhaps, be no bad thing. For the eyes of the secret police are unwaveringly trained on Copic and Tomsky, the manager and trainer for Spartak, who are faced with the choice of throwing the championship, or placing their lives, and those of their team mates in unequivocal, terrible danger. Love affairs, conspiracies, vodka-soaked evenings, the settling of old scores and the making of impossible choices, are all played out against the frozen Moscow landscape in this sparkling, suspenseful and vibrant second novel.

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• Verlag: Sceptre
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0340821485
• ISBN 13: 9780340821480
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288