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The Iron Bridge
Engelsk Paperback
The Iron Bridge
Engelsk Paperback

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Shortlisted, Danuta Gleed Literary Award

In a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of the 20th century''s most notorious tyrants. In The Iron Bridge, he is unafraid to push at the boundaries of the unexpected as he breathes fictionalized life into the adolescents who would grow up to become the most brutal dictators the world has ever known.

We discover a teenaged Mao Tse-Tung refusing an arranged marriage; Idi Amin cooking for the British Army; Stalin living in a seminary; and a melodramatic young Adolf Hitler dreaming of vast architectural achievements. Piatigorsky dazzlingly explores moments that are nothing more than vague incidents in the biographies of these men, expanding mere footnotes into entire realities as he ingeniously fills the gaps of the historical record.

The Iron Bridge, completely imagined yet captivatingly real, captures those crucial instants in time that may well have helped to deliver some of the most infamous leaders in history.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780864926746
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
086492674X
Udg. Dato:
14 sep 2012
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
127mm
Højde:
203mm
Forlag:
Goose Lane Editions
Oplagsdato:
14 sep 2012
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