Freight Dogs (W&N Essentials) - Hardcover

Foden, Giles

 
9780297868019: Freight Dogs (W&N Essentials)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0297868012 ISBN 13: 9780297868019
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit - Manu, a 19-year-old cowherd fleeing Congo's bloody war.

Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, he's soon seeing his vast country from above and falling in love with flying. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble follows closely behind. And when the past erupts back into this new life, Manu is forced to leave behind African skies for the chilly embrace of northern Europe. Will Manu be able to reinvent himself yet again? And is Belgian volcanologist Anke Desseaux the answer to his problems - or simply another one of them?

From the writer of The Last King of Scotland comes an unforgettable story of survival - about how to live and love after trauma, set against a backdrop of world-shaking conflict.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent much of his early life in Africa. He was educated at Cambridge University. He has worked as a barman, a builder, a journalist, an academic, and as a rapporteur for the European Commission. For ten years, he was an editor and writer on the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, and his writing has since been published in Granta, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times and Conde Nast Traveller, where he is a contributing editor. His fiction includes The Last King of Scotland, Ladysmith, Zanzibar and Turbulence. The Last King of Scotland was made into an Oscar-winning feature film in 2006.

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Verlag
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0297868012
ISBN 13 
9780297868019
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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Verantwortliche Person
Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK
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