Thief, spy and murderer
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Thief, spy and murderer
14.99 €
Yuri Buida is the author of the novels The Gift of Speech and The Fifth Kingdom, the collection of short stories The Prussian Bride, and other books published in Russia, France, Great Britain, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Norway.
In the novel The Thief, the Spy, and the Murderer (Big Book Award), the hero stubbornly pursues the profession of a writer — “the craft of a thief, a spy, and a murderer. A writer spies, eavesdrops, steals other people’s features and words, and then transfers all of this to paper, stops moments, as Goethe said, that is, kills the living for the sake of the beautiful…”
A completely different time (1950s–1980s) — and a completely different place (the delightful life of small towns in the Kaliningrad region, former Prussia); the memory that “the world lies in evil”, the list of mortal sins, human baseness and cruelty - and at the same time the ability to see divine beauty in all this; love, passion and death - everything came together on the pages of this novel.
In the novel The Thief, the Spy, and the Murderer (Big Book Award), the hero stubbornly pursues the profession of a writer — “the craft of a thief, a spy, and a murderer. A writer spies, eavesdrops, steals other people’s features and words, and then transfers all of this to paper, stops moments, as Goethe said, that is, kills the living for the sake of the beautiful…”
A completely different time (1950s–1980s) — and a completely different place (the delightful life of small towns in the Kaliningrad region, former Prussia); the memory that “the world lies in evil”, the list of mortal sins, human baseness and cruelty - and at the same time the ability to see divine beauty in all this; love, passion and death - everything came together on the pages of this novel.
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