Informationen zum Autor John Lanchester was born in Hamburg, grew up in Hong Kong, and lives in London. He has written six works of fiction and four of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E. M. Forster Award and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into twenty-five languages. The television mini-series of his novel Capital won an International Emmy Award. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext Kavanagh longs for some kind of event as he wiles away his time patrolling the wall, even if this event would call for him to have to fight for his life. Takes place in a strange, broken and yet recognisable world. Zusammenfassung A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year * LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 'Masterly .

Vorwort
John Lanchester's long-awaited new novel - a work of fiction that establishes itself as an instant modern classic.

Autorentext
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg, grew up in Hong Kong, and lives in London. He has written six works of fiction and four of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E. M. Forster Award and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into twenty-five languages. The television mini-series of his novel Capital won an International Emmy Award. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Klappentext

Kavanagh longs for some kind of event as he wiles away his time patrolling the wall, even if this event would call for him to have to fight for his life. Takes place in a strange, broken and yet recognisable world.

Zusammenfassung

• A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 *'Masterly .