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The Cold Centre
Inka Parei
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Description for The Cold Centre
hardcover. Begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting a cancer diagnosis. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must find out whether she was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Translator(s): Derbyshire, Katy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 299.
Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting a cancer diagnosis. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must find out whether she was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Quickly returning to the city, he tries to reconstruct the events of a few days so many years ago, and he revisits and questions his own memories of working in the chilling "cold centre"-the air conditioning plant for the East German party newspaper. Did she come in contact with a contaminated ... Read more
Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting a cancer diagnosis. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must find out whether she was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Quickly returning to the city, he tries to reconstruct the events of a few days so many years ago, and he revisits and questions his own memories of working in the chilling "cold centre"-the air conditioning plant for the East German party newspaper. Did she come in contact with a contaminated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857422132
SKU
V9780857422132
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-37
About Inka Parei
Inka Parel lives in Prenzlauer Berg with her son, writing and tutoring emerging literary talents. She is the author of The Shadow-Boxing Woman and What Darkness Was, also published by Seagull Books. Katy Derbyshire is a Berlin-based translator from London.
Reviews for The Cold Centre
"Literary perfection." (Frankfurter Neue Presse)"