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Who is Martha?

ISBN-13: 9781939931139

Contributor(s): Marjana Gaponenko (author), Arabella Spencer (translated by)

Subjects: Fiction In Translation

Publisher: New Vessel Press

Publisher Imprint: New Vessel Press

Publication Date: 07-10-2014

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£13.99

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About the book

96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savouring music in a gilded concert hall. Luka was born in 1914, the same year that Martha - the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons - died. Luka himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species...

Who is Martha?

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