Teeth and Spies

Teeth and Spies

by Giorgio Pressburger (Author), Giorgio Pressburger (Author)

Synopsis

This is the tragi-comic account of one man's life through the fate of his teeth; from the loss of his first milk tooth swallowed by his father in a prison camp, to the eventual fixture of a set of dentures. Devoting each chapter to a particular tooth, the unnamed narrator charts fifty years of East European history.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 22 Mar 1999

ISBN 10: 1862072698
ISBN 13: 9781862072695
Book Overview: The author has won the 1998 Viareggio Prize for La Neve e la Colpa and the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 1992 for The Law of White Spaces .