Kokoschka's Doll
$28.43
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2021
Summary
“A novel par excellence that is destined to become a classic’ of almost byzantine splendour … At its best worthy of comparison with Gabriel Garcia Marquez” Catherine Taylor, Irish Times
“Afonso Cruz is one of the strongest voices in contemporary Portuguese literature” Antonio Saez Delgado, El Pais
At the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice.
But it doesn’t belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529402698 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529402697 |
| Author: | Afonso Cruz, Rahul Bery |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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What truly distinguishes Cruz is how he can combine philosophical thinking with surprising writing, rich with imagery. - Time Out.
Highly recommended for its imaginative, playful character, though it tells many tales of sad love. - Publico.About The Author
Afonso Cruz
Afonso Cruz was born in Figueira da Foz in 1971. He works as a director of animation movies, an illustrator, a musician and a writer. Cruz studied at the Antonio Arroio Arts High School in Lisbon, at the College of Fine Arts of Lisbon and at the Madeira Institute of Plastic Arts. His animation career includes several movies and series. In 2007, he recorded an album with his blues/roots band, The Soaked Lamb, for which he composed the original songs, wrote the lyrics, sang and played the guitar, the banjo, the harmonica and the ukulele. He started his career as a fiction writer in 2008 with the novel A Carne de Deus (The Flesh of God).
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