Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Express to Galicia
by Bohdan Kolomiychuk
Description
Anton Piller, a former university lecturer from Switzerland, arrives in Venice to sell a unique translated manuscript and earn a large sum of money. Shortly after, he is shot dead, and his body is carried away by the canals. In 1906, in Baden, Felix, a doctor’s assistant, bribed with a precious ring, passes a secret letter to a Russian patient, Orlov, who strangely disappears from the clinic. Commissioner Vistovych, a restrained and cold-blooded Galician investigator, is drawn into the whirlpool of dangerous events. It turns out that the information from this secret document can turn not only human lives but also world history upside down. This novel is a true detective thriller, captivating the reader from beginning to end.
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Foreign rights sold: Polish language.
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Author Biography
Was born on 19th of February 1984, in Khmelnytsky region. From 2002 to 2010 worked as an actor and assistant to the artistic director of the First Theater in Lviv. A debut historical-adventure novel ""Ludwysar. The games of nobelmen" was published in 2013 and was awarded with the Grand-prix of the literary competition "Koronacija slova". Co-founder and curator of the cultural project "Carpathian Literary Residency" during 2017 - 2018. In 2017 performed, with support of the International Classical Music Festival "LvivMozArt", the research of the biography of Franz Xaver Mozart, a composer and teacher, who spent most of his life in Lviv. Based on the collected information and materials, the novel "Mozart from Lemberg" was published in 2018. This novel has been awarded as the "Best novel of the Book Forum - 2018" in the nomination "City".
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher The Old Lion Publishing House
- Publication Date 2020
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786176797760
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages353
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleЕкспрес до Ґаліції
- Original Language AuthorsКоломійчук Богдан
