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Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 12 days ago
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Jan 2012
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A tremendous international success and a huge favorite with booksellers and critics, Pascal Merciers Night Train to Lisbon has been one of the best-selling literary European novels in recent years. Now, in Perlmanns Silence, the follow up to his triumphant North American debut, Pascal Mercier delivers a deft psychological portrait of a man striving to get his life back on track in the wake of his beloved wifes death.Philipp Perlmann, prominent linguist and speaker at a gathering of renowned international academics in a picturesque seaside town near Genoa, is struggling to maintain his grip on reality. Derailed by grief and no longer confident of his professional standing, writing his keynote address seems like an insurmountable task, and, as the deadline approaches, Perlmann realizes that he will have nothing to present. Terror-stricken, he decides to plagiarize the work of Leskov, a Russian colleague. But when Leskovs imminent arrival
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Perlmann's Silence
ISBN: 9780802119575
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Prominent linguist and widower Philipp Perlmann contemplates drastic measures when he faces exposure after plagiarizing a colleague's work for his keynote address at an important academic gathering in...
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