Teeth and Spies

Teeth and Spies

by ShaunWhiteside (Translator), Giorgio Pressburger (Author)

Synopsis

The tragi-comic account of one man's life through the fate of his teeth; from the loss of his first milk tooth to the eventual fixture of a set of dentures. The unnamed narrator charts fifty years of East European history.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 28 Jun 2000

ISBN 10: 186207318X
ISBN 13: 9781862073180
Book Overview: The author has been a recipient of the Viareggio Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Award for his earlier work.

Media Reviews
A deeply philosophical novel, ever humorous.
Author Bio
Giorgio Pressburger was born in 1937 in Budapest. He left Hungary in 1956 and settled in Italy, where he worked as a film and theatre director. He is now the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. He is the author of The Law of White Spaces and Teeth and Spies, which are also available from Granta Books.