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Leeches

Leeches

by David Albahari (Author), David Albahari (Author), Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Aug 2012
ISBN 10: 0099563460
ISBN 13: 9780099563464
Book Overview: A thrilling adventure into an underground world of secret societies and conspiracy theories.

Media Reviews
Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history -- Claire Allfree * Metro *
A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies * Die Zeit *
Kafka for our times * Neue Zurcher Zeitung *
Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough * La Vie Litteraire *
Author Bio
David Albahari was born in Serbia and emigrated to Canada in 1994. He is the author of eleven novels and nine collections of short stories. His previous novel, Goetz and Meyer, was published in English and won the ALTA Translation Award. A story of his was recently selected for Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksandar Hemon.