Who is Martha?
ISBN-13: 9781939931139
Author(s): Marjana Gaponenko
Subjects: FYT
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Publisher Imprint: New Vessel Press
Publication Date: 07-10-2014
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
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...