The Fatal Eggs - Softcover

Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846882680 ISBN 13: 9781846882685

Verlag: Alma Books Ltd, 2012

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Críticas:

'The exuberance of it - has to enliven the reader, and make us laugh.' Doris Lessing 'Bulgakov was not merely a brilliant observer of what was going on around him, but had an uncanny ability to pick out the particular manifestations of folly and discord which would set the tone of the era to follow.' The Guardian 'Cockrell's self-effacing, fluent prose restores the elegant irony of the original, while rising to the challenge of Bulgakov's occasionally astride medical lexicon.' TLS

Reseña del editor:

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand -

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• Verlag: Alma Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846882680
• ISBN 13: 9781846882685
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144