ISBN: 0330023306
Godina izdanja: 1980
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Leslie Thomas - Orange Wednesday
Pan, 1980
203 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, potpis na predlistu.

Brunel, of the British army, "guards" the moribund files (WWII) molding above the steam baths in Fulsbad, Germany. He and his cat get pleasantly drunk on their wine-soaked liver. Brunel`s best friend is Otto, a gentle fool, once an S.S. postman, now a member of a neo-Nazi cowboy club. So this multi-toned book starts off in au odd and humorous fashion, with a hero, a Good. Soldier Schweik-schnook who is a forgotten man, even by his own army. He likes things that way. However by chanace he becomes the errand boy for a motley security guard to see that the reunification of Germany comes Off secretly and without a hitch. It is headed by an Amercan, Keenor, an egotist and sadist, and and for a time the book turns raucous--then sinister when Keenor tries to drown Brunel. The culmination of the book is swift and brutal, but its aftermath is empty and sad--a half-loving, half-bitter tale of postwar Germany which comes off very well and with considerable originality. Thomas wrote The Virgin Soldiers (1966), also a novel of mixed moods and implications.
Kirkus review

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over four million copies.


Fiction, Humor