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Who is Martha? / Marjana Gaponenko ; translated by Arabella Spencer.
- Title
- Who is Martha? / Marjana Gaponenko ; translated by Arabella Spencer.
- Author
- Gaponenko, Marjana, 1981-
- Publication
- New York : New Vessel Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT2707.A66 W4713 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Spencer, Arabella
- Description
- 216 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha--the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons--died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn't have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days."--Page [4] of cover.
- Uniform Title
- Wer ist Martha? English
- Alternative Title
- Wer ist Martha?
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Note
- First published: Berlin : Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1939931134
- 9781939931139
- OCLC
- 871789647
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library